According to Benet's Readers Encycylopedia of American Literature, 1991, edited by George Perkins, et al, "Many critics today feel that the first full fledged example of the hard-boiled method was Dashiell Hammett's story "Fly Paper" . . ."
Episode based on the Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) novelette of the same name and published in Black Mask, August 1929. Hammett wrote a series of "The Continental Op" stories.
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