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BOOKS ABOUT HAMMETT

NON-FICTION BOOKS:

· Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook William F. Nolan, 1969 · John Huston's The Maltese Falcon Richard J. Arnobile, 1974 · Dashiell Hammett: A Descriptive Bibliography Richard Layman, 1979 · Beams Falling: The Art of Dashiell Hammett Peter Wolfe, 1980

· Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett Richard Layman, 1981 · Which Way Did He Go?: The Private Eye in Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, and Ross MacDonald Edward Margolies, 1982 · The New Wild West: The Urban Mysteries of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler Paul Skenazy, 1982 · Hammett: A Life At the Edge William F. Nolan, 1983

· Dashiell Hammett: A Life Diane Johnson, 1983 · Dashiell Hammett William Marling, 1983 · Dashiell Hammett Dennis Dooley, 1984 · Dashiell Hammett Julian Symons, 1985

· Private Investigations: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett Sinda Gregory, 1985 · The Black Mask Boys William F. Nolan, 1985 (includes a section on Hammett, and the story "Bodies Piled Up") · Monarch Notes: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon Walter James Miller, 1988 · Hollywood Classics: The Maltese Falcon Marie Cahill, 1991

· Dashiell Hammett Tour  Don Herron  1st edition: 1979  2nd edition: 1982  3rd edition: 1991

· The Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett Christopher Meltress, 1994 · Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: A Checklist and Bibliography of Their Paperback Appearances Gary Lovisi, 1994 · The Maltese Falcon: John Huston, Director edited by William Luhr, 1995 · Hellman & Hammett Joan Mellen, 1996

· Literary Masters, Volume 3: Dashiell Hammett Richard Layman, 2000 · A Dashiell Hammett Companion Robert L. Gale, 2000 · Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers Jo Hammett, 2001 · Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett edited by Richard Layman, 2001

· Investigating Couples: A Critical Analysis of The Thin Man, The Avengers, and The X-Files Tom Soter, 2002 · Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, 2002 · Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 280: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon - A Documentary Volume Richard Layman, 2003 · Reading Early Hammett: A Critical Study of the Fiction Prior to The Maltese Falcon LeRoy Lad Panek

· Lost Stories edited by Vince Emery, 2005 · Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade Richard Layman, 2005 · Hammett’s Moral Vision George J. “Rhino” Thompson, 2005

NON-FICTION BOOKLETS:

· A List of the Original Appearances of Dashiell Hammett’s Magazine Work   E. H. Mundell, 1968 (52 pages, hardback) · The Maltese Falcon Society Handbook Jayson Wechter, 1982 (ten pages) · Notes from the Editors (booklet included with the Franklin Library's 1984 edition of The Continental Op) · Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco: A Pictorial Guide Ed Sames and Ric Botelho, 1999 (28 pages, photocopied)

NON-FICTION BOOKS IN OTHER LANGUAGES:

· Dashiell Hammett: Selected Prose Rusian, 1985.  Commentary in Russian, an English-Russian slang glossary, plus The Glass Key, The Thin Man, "Fly Paper" and "The Gatewood Caper" in English. · Abraxas en el pais de las pesadillas: La narrativa de Dashiell Hammett Alvaro Barros-Lemez.  Uruguay, 1986 (Spanish) · Deux Regards sur l'Amerique: Dashiell Hammett et Walker Percy J.M. Santraud, 1987 (French) · Dashiell Hammett: Underworld USA Jean-Pierre Deloux, 1994 (French)

· Dashiell Hammett: Der Malteser Falke Inge Hillmann, 1994  (German two-volume set in slipcase. The book on the left is the novel, the one on the right is Hillmann's commentary)

· Dashiell Hammett: Parcours d'une Oeuvre Natalie Beunat, 1997 (French) · Hard-Boiled Fiction and Dark Romanticism (Studien Zur Englischen Und Amerikanischen Literatur, Bd. 19) Jopi Nyman, 1998 (German. Has a section on Hammett)

SELECTED MAGAZINES:

· California Living, Jan. 13, 1974  (includes "Stalking Sam Spade," by Fritz Leiber) · City of San Francisco, Nov. 4, 1975  (All-Hammett issue, with articles by Joe Gores, Steven Marcus and many others) · The Armchair Detective, volume 9, number 4, October 1976  (includes a Hammett checklist)

· Xenophile #38, 1980 · Paperback Quarterly, Fall, 1981 · Smithsonian, May 1994 (includes "A Thin Man who Made Memorable Use of his Spade," by Daniel Stashower )

· Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine, November, 2000 · Collecting Paperbacks? volume 1, number 3 (date unknown) · Collecting Paperbacks? volume 3, number 2 (date unknown)

HAMMETT DOCUMENTARIES:

Dashiell Hammett: Detective, Writer 1999 documentary on DVD

FICTION USING HAMMETT AS A CHARACTER:

· Hammett  Joe Gores, 1975 · Chandler  William Denbow, 1977 · Our Lady of Darkness Fritz Leiber, 1978 · The Man Who Knew Hammett Vincent McConnor, 1988

· The Black Mask Murders William F. Nolan, 1994 · The Marble Orchard William F. Nolan, 1996 · Hammett Jean Dufaux and Marc Males, 1996 (Graphic novel, French) · Sharks Never Sleep William F. Nolan, 1998

· Chasing Sam Spade Brian Lawson, 2000 · “War Can Be Murder,” short story by Mike Doogan, 2002.  US Army sergeant Samuel D. Hammett solves a case during WWII. (included in Mystery: The Best of 2002, edited by Jon L. Breen, 2003) · Locked Rooms Laurie R. King, 2005

MOVIES USING HAMMETT AS A CHARACTER:

· Julia, 1977.  Jason Robards as Hammett · The Dain Curse, 1978 TV miniseries.  James Coburn as "Hamilton Nash" · Hammett, 1982.  Frederick Forrest as Hammett · Citizen Cohn, 1992.  Frederick Forrest (again) as Hammett

· Dash & Lilly, 1999 TV movie.  Sam Shepard as Hammett · Haiku Tunnel, 2001.  Steve Klinger as Hammett