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Sample of authors
Nadel, Barbara
Barbara Nadel is a British author of detective stories. She has offered little information about her personal details. Barbara Nadel is probably not her real name, and she has so far not made her year of birth public. The only information she has revealed is that she was born and raised in the East End of London. She has a degree in psychology, and she has taught the subject. She has also worked...
Literary figures
Sam Spade
Gender: Male
Dashiell Hammett only wrote one novel and a few short stories about the American private detective Sam Spade. The Maltese Falcon, however, is a major classic and like some of his short stories it is the precursor of the hardboiled detective story. The cynical, tough and outright rude Spade and his personal habits are so often copied that they have become clichés.