Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler are known for their work in what area?
Dashiell Hammett Davis as Hellman. The Continental Op Sam Spade Nick and Nora Charles In 2011, magazine editor Andrew Gulli found fifteen previously unknown short stories by Dashiell Hammett in the archives of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin. Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ("The Maltese Falcon"), Nick and Nora Charles ("The Thin Man"), and the Continental Op ("Red Harvest" and
Dashiell Hammett era. "I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much, it's because he's not to be trusted when he does". Raymond Chandler, often considered Hammett's successor, summarized his accomplishments in "The Simple Art of Murder": Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of, "The Glass Key", is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all.