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Hammett said: "All my characters were based on people I've known personally, or known about."[10]

Raymond Chandler, the writer often considered Hammett's successor, summarized his accomplishments: "Hammett was the ace performer... He is said to have lacked heart; yet the story he himself thought the most of [The Glass Key] is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before."

- Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder

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