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THE NOVELS IN ONE VOLUME

Every now and then, a single volume combines two or more of Hammett's novels under one cover.  Here are but some of them:

1. Dashiell Hammett Omnibus, Knopf, 1935: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon 2. The Complete Dashiell Hammett, Knopf, 1942: All five novels, in reverse order of publication 3. Dashiell Hammett Mystery Omnibus, World, 1944: The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key 4. Dashiell Hammett Omnibus, Cassell, 1950: All five novels, plus several short stories

5. The Novels of Dashiell Hammett, Knopf, 1965:  All five novels 6. Five Complete Novels, Avenell, 1980: All five novels 7. Five Complete Novels, Wings, 1980: All five novels

8. The Four Great Novels, Picador, 1984: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key 9. Complete Novels, Library of America, 1999: All five novels 10. Dashiell Hammett, Everyman's Library, 2000: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, The Glass Key

Here's a rare one: Dashiell Hammett: Selected Detective Prose, published in Russia in 1985. It includes (in English) The Glass Key, The Thin Man, and two short stories, "Fly Paper," and "The Gatewood Caper."  There's also a critical essay in Russian, and an English-Russian slang glossary.