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Literary, historical, and contemporary writings about the Pacific Northwest.
If Dashiell Hammett, the man who invented the modern American detective novel, is associated with any city, it’s usually San Francisco, where he wrote most of his best-known works, including his breakout 1930 novel, The Maltese Falcon . But it may have been a brief stay in a Tacoma hospital that turned him into the writer he became.
Having grown up poor, Hammett was forced to work from the time he was a teenager. Eventually, he hooked up with the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His years in that line of work are generally considered the source of his street knowledge and private eye’s view. But it was his time being treated for tuberculosis in Tacoma in 1921 that wound up being the turning point in his life.
Michael N. McGregor – Author, Essayist, Journalist, Writing Consultant
M.L. Schepps – Writing. Birds. Blogs.