“"Remember, I've got no idea what this is all about," said the girl when they were in the living room, a narrow room, where blue fought with red without ever compromising on purple.”

— Dashiell Hammett

"The Assistant Murderer" (published in Black Mask, February 1926)
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American writer 1894–1961

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