Roman Noir in Fiction and Life

mere silence. He kept typewritersnaround the place just to remind himselfnthat he had been a writer. Except fornthe handmaiden work he did on Hell;nman's plays and the occasional coursenon fiction writing at the Marxist JeffersonnSchool of Social Science, DashiellnHammett was a classic burnout. But henwas still a Marxist . . .