Dashiell Hammett
1894-05-27 – 1961-01-10
231 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), The Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9.
Also published as: Dashiel Hammett, Samuel Dashiell Hammett, dashiell hammett, D. Hammett, d. Hammett, Dasshiell Hammett
Most-read books
The Maltese Falcon
3.4 · 1929 · 98 want to read
Red Harvest
4 · 1929 · 43 want to read
The Glass Key
3.6 · 1931 · 29 want to read
Novels (Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man)
1965 · 25 want to read
The Continental Op
4 · 1974 · 20 want to read
The Dain curse
2.3 · 1929 · 13 want to read
The big knockover
4 · 1966 · 12 want to read
The Thin Man
4.3 · 1934 · 12 want to read
The Oxford book of detective stories
2000 · 14 want to read
The Return Of The Thin Man
2012 · 10 want to read
Woman in the dark
3 · 1988 · 5 want to read
The novels of Dashiell Hammett
1965 · 5 want to read
The Big Book of the Continental Op
4 · 2017 · 4 want to read
Nightmare Town
5 · 1948 · 4 want to read
Crime Classics
4 · 1990 · 6 want to read
Blood money
1943 · 3 want to read
The big knockover and other stories
1966 · 4 want to read
Hunter and Other Stories
2013 · 5 want to read
Lost Stories (The Ace Performer Collection series)
2005 · 2 want to read
Vintage Hammett
4 · 2005 · 2 want to read
The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories
Dashiell Hammett
The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories
2013 · 2 want to read
The adventures of Sam Spade
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The adventures of Sam Spade
1944 · 2 want to read
Four Great Novels, the
1982 · 1 want to read
Hunter and other stories
2013 · 2 want to read