Dashiell Hammett (0)

• Was born in 1894 – died in 1961
  
• Was an American author of hard -boiled detective novels and short stories, a screenplay writer and political activist.
  

(The hardboiled detective is tough , both emotionally and physically)

• Left school when he was 13 years old and held several jobs before working for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
  
• Hammett enlisted in the United States Army in 1918. However , he became ill with the Spanish flu.
  
• Married Josephine Dolan and had two daughters. (Shortly after the birth of their second child, Health Services nurses informed Josephine that due to Hammett's TB, she and the children should not live with him full -time. Josephine rented a home in San Francisco , where Hammett would visit on weekends. The marriage soon fell apart, but he continued to financially support his wife and daughters with the income he made from his writing)
  
• Hammett died in New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital , of lung cancer (diagnosed just two months before his death )
  

„Too Many Have Lived“ (1932) is a tale about the murder of Eli Haven . Eli was a poet with underworld connections and tendency to blackmail people. When he put the squeeze on one gentelman, he went missing . In the story leading character , detective called Sam Spade, detangles the events what happened around the time when Haven went missing and who was behind all of that.

• Story is written by describing to the reader what the detective is doing and feeling .