“Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting during the McCarthy era, and his subsequent downward spiral, Dashiell Hammett led a life of action.  Based on original research across the country, The Lost Detective is the first book to illuminate … Continue reading Michelle Recommends: The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett – Nathan Ward