1894/05/27 |
Anne Bond Dashiell, wife of Richard Thomas Hammett, gives birth to a son, Samuel Dashiell Hammett, on "Hopewell and Aim" farm near Great Mills, Maryland. |
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Hopewell and Aim, Lexington Park |
Lexington Park, MD |
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1900/00/00 |
Samuel Dasheil Hammet will grow up at 212 N Strieker Street (now demolished) in Baltimore, Maryland. |
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Franklin Square Historic District |
Baltimore, MD |
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1918/06/24 |
Hammett enters the US Army, serves in the Motor Ambulance Company at Camp Mead, Maryland |
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1919/03/00 |
In early 1919, Dashiell Hammett takes ill with influenza, complicated by bronchial pneumonia. |
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Influenza Pandemic of 1918 |
1919/05/29 |
Hammett is discharged from the Army with 'arrested' tuberculosis. |
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1920/06/00 |
Hammett, a Pinkerton Detective, is sent to Anaconda |
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Anaconda Smoke Stack State Park |
Anaconda, MT |
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1920/11/00 |
Hammett enters Cushman Institute (US Public Health Service hospital in Tacoma, Washington) to receive treatment for tuberculosis. He will be cared for by Nurse Josephine Dolan. |
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1921/01/00 |
Hammett is transferred to a USPHS hospital at Camp Kearney (Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego) for further treatment for tuberculosis (discharged in May 1921) |
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1922/00/00 |
Crackerjack Pinkerton detective Dashiell Hammett gathers evidence for the defense of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. |
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Trials of Roscoe Arbuckle |
1922/05/00 |
At 870 Market St, Detective Hammett quits Pinkerton before his 28th birthday. Hammett used the building for the location of the Continental Detective Agency, and the mysterious Continental Op. |
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Flood Building |
San Francisco |
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1926/00/00 |
Dashiell Hammett takes an apartment at 891 Post Street, probably residing in 401 (NE corner, 4th flr). He will write his first three novels, "Red Harvest", "The Dain Curse" and "The Maltese Falcon", here before moving in 1929. |
Home |
The Maltese Falcon |
891 Post St |
San Francisco |
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1926/00/00 |
Dashiell Hammett takes an apartment at 891 Post Street, probably residing in 401 (NE corner, 4th flr). He will write his first three novels, "Red Harvest", "The Dain Curse" and "The Maltese Falcon", here before moving in 1929. |
Home |
Red Harvest (book) |
891 Post St |
San Francisco |
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1926/00/00 |
Dashiell Hammett takes an apartment at 891 Post Street, probably residing in 401 (NE corner, 4th flr). He will write his first three novels, "Red Harvest", "The Dain Curse" and "The Maltese Falcon", here before moving in 1929. |
Home |
The Dain Curse |
891 Post St |
San Francisco |
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1927/11/00 |
Part 1 of "The Cleansing of Poisonville" by Dashiell Hammett appears in Black Mask magazine. |
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Red Harvest (book) |
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1929/07/19 |
The Dain Curse - published |
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The Dain Curse |
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1930/02/00 |
The Farewell Murder - published in Black Mask magazine |
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The Farewell Murder |
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1930/02/14 |
The Maltese Falcon - published |
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The Maltese Falcon |
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1930/04/00 |
Former Pinkerton detective, Dashiell is hired as a crime fiction reviewer for the New York Evening Post. Between April and October 1930, he will review a total of 85 books in 13 "Crime Wave" articles. |
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1931/04/24 |
The Glass Key - published |
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The Glass Key |
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1934/01/08 |
The Thin Man - published |
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The Thin Man (book) |
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1936/12/25 |
"After the Thin Man" is released. |
Story by Dashiell Hammett |
After the Thin Man |
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1944/01/19 |
First edition of The Adakian, the Adak Army Base newspaper edited by Dashiell Hammett from 1944 to 1946, is published. |
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Adak Army Base and Adak Naval Operating Station |
Adak Island |
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1951/07/09 |
Dashiell Hammett is subpoenaed and asked to name contributors to American communist organizations. Hammett refuses and spends 6 months in jail. |
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1953/03/26 |
Dashiell Hammett testifies before House Un-American Activities Committee, refuses to cooperate and was blacklisted. |
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House Un-American Activities Hearings |
1961/01/10 |
Samuel Dashiell Hammett dies of lung cancer in Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, New York City. Mr Hammett's grave is in Arlington National Cemetery, section 12, site 508. |
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Arlington National Cemetery |
Arlington, VA |
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