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Dashiell Hammett

(Samuel Dashiell Hammett)

(1894 - 1961)

aka Peter Collinson

American novelist and screenwriter. Drew from his experiences as a detective to write "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man" stories.

Genres: Mystery

Series

Big Knockover
   1. The Gatewood Caper (1923)
   2. The Scorched Face (1925)
   3. Corkscrew (1925)
   4. The Gutting of Couffignal (1925)
   5. The Big Knockover (1927)
     aka $106,000 Blood Money
   6. This King Business (1928)
   7. Fly Paper (1929)
   The Big Knockover: and Other Stories (1966)

Continental Op
   1. Red Harvest (1929)
   2. The Dain Curse (1931)
   3. The Golden Horseshoe (1924)
   4. The Whosis Kid (1925)
   5. The Main Death (1927)
   6. The Farewell Murder (1930)
   The Girl with the Silver Eyes (1924)
   The Tenth Clew (1924)
   The Big Book of the Continental Op (2017)

Novels

   The Sardonic Star of Tom Doody (1923) (as by Peter Collinson)
   The Maltese Falcon (1930)
   The Glass Key (1931)
   Woman in the Dark (1933)
   The Thin Man (1934)
   They Can Only Hang You Once (1944)
   The Creeping Siamese (1950)
   Nightmare Town (1950)

Omnibus

   Dashiell Hammett's Mystery Omnibus (1944)
   The Dashiell Hammett Omnibus (1950)
   The Dashiell Hammett Story Omnibus (1966)
   Return of the Thin Man / Stealing the Dragon / Concrete Desert (2013) (with Tim Maleeny and Jon Talton)

Collections

   The Novels of Dashiell Hammett (1927)
   The Adventures of Sam Spade (1944)
   A Man Called Spade (1944)
   The Continental Op (1945)
   Hammett Homicides (1946)
   Dead Yellow Women (1947)
   The Four Great Novels (1983)
   Complete Novels (1999)
   Crime Stories (2001)
   Dashiell Hammett (2004)
   Vintage Hammett (2005)
   Lost Stories (2005) (with Vince Emery and Joe Gores)

Series contributed to

Black Cat Weekly (with John Gregory Betancourt, Hal Charles, Bobbi A Chukran, Ralph Milne Farley, Barb Goffman, A R Morlan, Frank Lovell Nelson, E Nesbit and Dwight V Swain)
6. Black Cat Weekly #6 (2021)

Anthologies edited

   Creeps by Night (1931)
     aka Modern Tales of Horror
   The Red Brain (1961)
   Breakdown (1968)

Non fiction

Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett (2001)
The Crime Wave (2006)

Anthologies containing stories by Dashiell Hammett

American Detective Stories (1943)

Short stories

	$106,000 Blood Money
	The Big Knockover [short story]
	Corkscrew [short story]
	Dead Yellow Women [short story]
	Fly Paper [short story]
	The Gatewood Caper [short story]
	The Gutting of Couffignal [short story]
	The King Business
	A Man Called Spade [short story]
	The Scorched Face [short story]
	Tulip