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Hammett may refer to:
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- ↑ Ancient Faces website
- 1 2 Dashiell Hammett, Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, Counterpoint,U.S., 2002, p. 268
- 1 2 Society of Sigma Xi, A Magazine of Sigma Chi, v. 61, no. 3, 1942
- 1 2 Abe C. Ravitz, Leane Zugsmith: Thunder on the Left, Intl Pub, 1992, p. 102
- ↑ Benjamin Stolberg, The story of the CIO, Arno, 1971, p. 251
- ↑ Stanley Kunitz, Howard Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors, New York City: H. W. Wilson Company, 1966, p. 1574
- ↑ Paulist Fathers, New Catholic World, v. 155, 1942, p. 207
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