Bremake here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast.

Well if you enjoy shows like The Wire or True Detective or Lawn Order or if you enjoy

film noir, there's one guy you can thank for that.

His name is Dashal Hammett and he was a writer during the 1920s and 30s and through the 40s.

And he is the guy who created the modern detective.

He was the man who created one of the most iconic masculine anti-heroes, Sam Spade who

started off as an a book, later became a movie hero played by Humphrey Bogard and the

Maltese Falcon.

But Dashal Hammett, he created, he took the detective genre and brought it into the modern

era.

And the reason he was able to do that was that he himself was a detective before he became

a writer.

He was a private eye for the Pinkerton detective agency in his early days and a lot of the

stories that he published and wrote were inspired by his own experience or the experiences of

other PIs that he knew about.

But the thing is there's not that much out there about Dashal Hammett time as a Pinkerton

detective.

So my guest day, he wanted to find out all about this career and what made Dashal Hammett,

Dashal Hammett.

And his name is Nathan Ward.

He wrote a book called The Lost Detective Becoming Dashal Hammett and had to get another

podcast because I'm a huge Dashal Hammett fan of my huge detective novel fan from that

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