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
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•  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  

                   First edition: 1979  

                   Second edition: 1982  

                   Third edition: 1991

                   Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, 2009

•  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 and 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
• Hellman & Hammett, Sally Kline, 2009

•  The Dark Minds of Mystery Writers: Focus on Dashiell Hammett, edited by Beatriz Scaglia, 2010
•  Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery, Sally Cline, 2014

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)
• La narrativa popular de Dashiell Hammett: 'Pulps', cine y comics (Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis nord-americans), Jesus Angel Gonzalez Lopez, 2004 (Spanish)

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 DOCUMENTARY

• 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
• Lillian & Dash, Sam Toperoff. 2013

•  Hammett Unwritten, Owen Fitzstephen and Gordon McAlpine, 2013

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