While I must agree with Guthrie that Hammett is often both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allan Guthrie's 200 Noirs] Reference

For example, Dashiell Hammett is one of my favorite authors; I've read everything he ever wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [8-legged neuroses] Reference

I have always thought you learn more of the private detective procedures in Hammett's "Op Stories," but Spade is the gold standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Gores - An interview with author] Reference

In fashioning his pen name Hammett used a system all his own - what might be called the "Modesty Method.".    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Queens' Parlour]

Hammett asked laconically, straightening the pages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

Hammett handed the photograph back across the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

"And the Hammett gals live two good mile ahead o 'ye.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

"Too close to things to see clearly," Hammett suggested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

Hammett shot him a dubious glance before bending to his food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

"I gave your toilet-pull to my police friend," Hammett told him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

Annexation -- Van Buren's Letter to Hammett, and its Effect upon the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference

He watched to see if Hammett looked puzzled, but the man was nodding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

It took Hammett a quarter of an hour to sidle his way off of the rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

Just gone two o'clock, which gave him six hours before meeting Hammett.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

Hammett said, his irritation fading as his attention returned to the plate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

His eyebrow arched and he looked at Hammett, who nodded as if in agreement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

Hammett came out with a bundle in his arms, wrapped in a torn piece of dust-cloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

Film historians are in disagreement over whether Kurosawa took his lead from Hammett.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Nameless Stranger, Half a Century Later] Reference

"The Smart Set on the side-table is mine, not my wife's," Hammett asserted, but weakly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

Hammett, catching up his coat and walking beside me with more decorum, looked at me askance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

"Let us go by the house on the way to the hotel and see if Long and Hammett are still there.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

Hammett kicked the door open and the boy scrambled in, without the taxi actually coming to a halt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

By way of answer, Hammett reached for his note-book, tore out a page, and slid it across to Holmes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

When they walked in, the man drying glasses behind the bar greeted Hammett as a longtime acquaintance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

Under the force of those sparkling eyes and sensible words, even Hammett had to withdraw his scepticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

Walky Dexter was going to drive out to the Hammett place after supper to pick up his load of young people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

Holmes dropped the envelope back in the file; Hammett flipped the cover shut as if to put the money out of sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

In truth, the supper down at the old Hammett farmhouse, after the work of the day was over, was the principal event.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

In answer, Hammett opened the file again and took out the envelope that gave it its thickness, handing it to Holmes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

"Very little," Holmes admitted, but before Hammett could make a pointed display of his own impatience, Holmes continued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

Taking into account his poor physical condition, Hammett was making a remarkably thorough job of his investigation of the cliffside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

They shook hands, with a certain amount of probing on both sides, and then Holmes released his grip and clapped Hammett on the shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

The Hammett sugar camp consisted of an open shed in which to boil the sap and an old cabin -- perhaps one of the first built in these New.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

Looking in, he had seen a man bent over the lock of the Hammett door, and behind him a woman, looking up and down the hall-way nervously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]