Under the pseudonym Peter Collinson, he published the short story Black Mask before joining the Baltimore office of the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
Under the pseudonym Peter Collinson, he published the short story Black Mask before joining the Baltimore office of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. An attempt at an autobiography remains in the story "Tulip" from the collection The Big Knockover. He drew on his detective experience to write such mystery stories as Roadhouse Nights and Red Harvest. For ten points, name this founder of "hard-boiled fiction," who created Nick Charles in The Thin Man and Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon.
Under the pseudonym Peter Collinson, he published the short story Black Mask before joining the Baltimore office of the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
Samuel Dashiell {Hammett}