{"id":142671,"date":"2019-11-14T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=142671"},"modified":"2019-11-13T08:53:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T13:53:53","slug":"michelle-recommends-the-lost-detective-becoming-dashiell-hammett-nathan-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=142671","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Recommends: The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett &#8211; Nathan Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-142672 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lost-detective-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lost-detective-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lost-detective.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/>&#8220;<em>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.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Based on original research across the country, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3679295?locg=1\"><strong>The Lost Detective<\/strong><\/a><em> is the first book to illuminate Hammett&#8217;s transformation from real detective to great American detective writer, throwing brilliant new light on one of America&#8217;s most celebrated and remembered novelists and his world.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lost Detective<\/strong> is a bite-sized biography of Hammett that also offers a fascinating if narrow look-see inside the Pinkerton Agency of the teens and early twenties. Tip: Don&#8217;t skip the footnotes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;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.\u00a0 Based on original research across the country, The Lost Detective is the first book to illuminate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":142672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-michelle-recommends","category-non-fiction","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lost-detective.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-B79","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142671"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142689,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142671\/revisions\/142689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}