Dashiell Hammett
Critique • Works
Born
St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1894
Died
New York City, United States, 2001
Places lived
Philadelphia, United States; Baltimore; Tacoma, Washington; San Francisco, California; New York City; West Virginia; Pleasantville, New York;
Nationality
American
Publications
Novels, stories, screenplays, essays
Genres
Crime, mystery, detective fiction
Writing language
English
Literature
• The Maltese Falcon (1930)
• The Thin Man (1934)
Novels
• Red Harvest (1929)
• The Maltese Falcon (1930)
• The Thin Man (1934)
Stories
• "The Gutting of Couffignal" (1925)
Crime and Mystery
• Red Harvest (1929)
• The Maltese Falcon (1930)
• The Glass Key (1931)
• The Thin Man (1934)
• The Continental Op (1945)
Crime and Mystery Stories
• "The Gutting of Couffignal" (1925)
American Literature
• The Maltese Falcon (1930)
• The Glass Key (1931)
• The Thin Man (1934)
First appearance of works in book form
1929
Red Harvest Novel
The Dain Curse Novel
1930
The Maltese Falcon Novel
1931
The Glass Key Novel
1934
The Thin Man Novel
1944
A Man Called Spade and Other Stories Five stories, ed. Ellery Queen
First book appearance of "A Man Called Spade", "They Can Only Hang you Once", "Too Many Have Lived". "The Assistant Murderer", "His Brother's Keeper"
1945
The Continental Op Four stories, ed. Ellery Queen
First book appearance of "The Farewell Murder", "Fly Paper", "Death on Pine Street", "Zigzags of Treachery"
The Return of the Continental Op Five stories, ed. Ellery Queen
First book appearance of "One Hour", "The Gutting of Couffignal", "Death and Company", "One Hour", "The Tenth Clue"
1947
Dead Yellow Women Six stories, ed. Ellery Queen
First book appearance of "Dead Yellow Women", "The Golden Horseshoe", "House Dick", "Who Killed Bob Teal?", "The Green Elephant", "The Hairy One"
1948
Nightmare Town Four stories, ed. Ellery Queen
First book appearance of "Nightmare Town", "The Scorched Face", "Albert Pastor at Home", "Corkscrew"
Hammett Homicides Six stories, ed. Ellery Queen
First book appearance of "The House in Turk Street", "The Girl with Silver Eyes", "Night Shots", "The Main Death", "Two Sharp Knives", "Ruffian's Wife"
1950
The Creeping Siamese Five stories, ed. Ellery Queen
First book appearance of "The Man Who Killed Dan Odams", "The Nails in Mr. Cayterer", "The Joke on Eloise Money", "Tom, Dick or Harry", "This King Business"
1952
Woman in the Dark Novella and stories
1962
A Man Named Thin and Other Stories Eight stories, ed. Ellery Queen
First book appearance of "A Man Named Thin", "Wages of Crime", "The Gatewood Caper", "The Barber and His Wife", "Itchy the Debonair", "The Second-Storey Angel", "In the Morgue", "When Luck's Running Good"
1966
The Big Knockover Ten stories, ed. Lillian Hellman
First book appearance of "Tulip", "The Big Knockover", "$106,000 Blood Money"
1974
The Continental Op Seven stories, ed. Steven Marcus
1983
Dashiell Hammett's Secret Agent X-9 Comic strip created with artist Alex Raymond in 1934
1988
Woman in the Dark Novel, from 1933 serial in Liberty Magazine
1999
Nightmare Town Twenty stories, ed. Kirby McCauley, Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman
First book appearance of "Afraid of a Gun", "The First Thin Man"
2000
Selected letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921–1960 Letters, ed. Richard Layman, Julie M. Rivette
2005
Vintage Hammett Novel excerpts and stories
First book appearance of story "Nightshade"
Lost Stories Twenty-one stories, ed. Vince Emery
First book appearance of "Rough Start", "Parthian Shot", "Great Lovers", "Immortality", "Road Home", "Master Mind", "Sardonic Star of Tom Doody", , "Holiday", "Crusader", "Dimple", "Laughing Masks", "Esther Entertains", "Another Perfect Crime", "Ber Bulu", "Advertising Man Writes a Love Letter", "This Little Pig", "Thin Man and the Flack" "Long Sunset"
2013
The Return of the Thin Man Three screen stories, ed. Richard Layman, Julie M. Rivette
First book appearance of "After the Thin Man", "Another Thin Man", "Sequel to the Thin Man".
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