Dashiell Hammett has retired from his career as a Pinkerton detective to write fiction. An old friend calls, and Hammett becomes involved in a search for a missing girl in Chinatown.
"Imaginary story about Dashiell Hammett, a writer who lives the hard-boiled life he writes about."
"Dashiell Hammett has retired from his career as a Pinkerton detective to write fiction. An old friend calls, and Hammett becomes involved in a search for a missing girl in Chinatown."@en
"Dashiell Hammett has retired from his career as a Pinkerton detective to write fiction. An old friend calls, and Hammett becomes involved in a search for a missing girl in Chinatown."
""The scene is San Francisco in 1928. Dashiell Hammett has retired from his career as a Pinkerton detective to devote himself to writing fiction. An old friend calls in an old debt, and Hammett finds himself in the middle of a search for a missing girl in Chinatown.""@en
"Voormalige detective Hammett wordt door een vroegere collega ingeschakeld bij het opsporen van de chinese prostituée Chrystal Ling."
"San Francisco, 1928: quando un ex collega dell'agenzia Pinkerton ... gli chiede di aiutarlo a trovare una giovanissima prostituta cinese, lo scrittore Dashiell Hammett abbandona con riluttanza le sue carte e va a Chinatown. (Mereghetti)."@it
"San Francisco, 1928. Dashiell Hammet, a former detective of the Pinkerton Agency, is a tuberculous drunkard who barely survives writing detective stories. An old colleague, Jimmy Ryan comes to visit him - he needs Dashiell's help to solve the case of Crystal Ling. A Chinese girl mysteriously disappeared. Hammett finds himself once more in the streets of Chinatown. Only his detective instinct will enable him to survive - all the more disillusioned, he will go back to his typewriter."@en
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