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Also wrote as peter collinson, daghull hammett, samuel dashiell, mary jane hammett samuel dashiell hammett was an american author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. The second volume of short stories featuring the adventures of crime fictions most hardboiled sleuth. Crime stories and other writings collects two dozen of the 36 stories hammett published about the continental op, most of them novelettes. Continental op which would figure in many of his subsequent stories. Crime stories and other writings by dashiell hammett.
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