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Episode: "Hammett in Hollywood" by Mark Dawidziak
Description: In the world of film noir, the leading lights are usually listed as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Cornell Woolrich.Hammett proved to be an inspiration for Mark Dawidziak, a writer whose published works include biographies of Mark Twain (the white-suited author who Dawidziak has impersonated for more than 30 years), Edgar Allan Poe (see previous podcast on The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe) and Teddy Roosevelt along with books on Twilight Zone, Columbo and Kolchak the Night Stalker.Dawidziak said he was moved to write his own book on Hammett after...