Advertisement50 Years After His Death, A New Thrill From HammettMarch 08, 2011facebookEmailTalk Of The Town Again: Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman hold down a table at the 21 Club on New Year's Eve 1944. Hammett, who died in January 1961, gets yet another mystery-magazine byline this week with a story called "So I Shot Him." (Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)