![]() ![]() It’s a company town. The murdered man is the son of Elihu Wilson, who owns the place. I didn’t think anything of what he had done to the city’s name. … A few years later I went to Personville and learned better.” ![]() ![]() “I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. That’s what makes Hammett’s five crime novels the five best works to measure ourselves against. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before.” he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all.He had style, but his audience didn’t know it, because it was in a language not supposed to be capable of such refinements. ….He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes.with the means at hand, not with hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare, and tropical fish.Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons ….I’ve taken what he said about Hammett-in ordinary paragraph form-and turned it into a list. Chandler was a superb analyst of the genre. ![]() For my money Hammett was the better writer. There are two godfathers of modern crime writing, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. ![]()
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