Florida Time: Dashiell Hammett came to Miami on vacation, got arrested
Naturally, as with everything else, many have a Florida connection. We’ve told you about Papa Hemingway punching out a poet in Key West. But think Dashiell Hammett and you think San Francisco. After all, the former Pinkerton detective made that city a character in his noir classic, "The Maltese Falcon." But what about Burdines? In Nathan Ward's book "The Lost Detective," about Hammett's early life, he writes that in February 1934, just after Knopf published Hammett's iconic "The Thin Man," the married Hammett and his girlfriend, fellow author Lillian Hellmann ("Little Foxes") went to Mia...
Source: gainesville.com