S I T E M E N U :
A short biography of Dashiell Hammett, followed by Frequently Asked Questions
“The Complete Works of Dashiell Hammett”
A chronology of Hammett’s fiction
The Continental Op: Hammett’s first hard-
Woman in the Dark: Hammett’s lost novel?
A photo tour of “Sam Spade’s apartment” (2003)
Dashiell Hammett Place: another former Hammett residence (2004)
The Flood Building: Hammett’s Pinkerton Detective office (2004)
The Maltese Falcon’s 75th anniversary (2005)
Interview with Hammett scholar Dr. George J. “Rhino” Thompson (2007)
The Dashiell Hammett Suite, Hotel Union Square (2008)
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Special thanks to:
Robert Mailer Anderson
Bill Arney
Vince Emery
Don Herron
Richard Layman
Jo Marshall
Eddie Muller
Julie Rivett
and so many others
for their many
contributions to this site.
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“THE COMPLETE WORKS OF DASHIELL HAMMETT”
Don’t expect to walk into a bookstore and buy a copy of The Complete Works of Dashiell Hammett, because no such volume exists. But the following four books, none of which are overly hard to find, will give you the vast majority of Hammett’s work:
Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels, 1999, Library of America
Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories and Other Writings, 2001, Library of America
Nightmare Town, edited by McCauley, Greenberg & Gorman, 1999, Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
Lost Stories 2005, Vince Emery Productions
The Hunter and Other Stories, 2013, Mysterious Press
Return of The Thin Man, 2012, Mysterious Press
The screen treatments that eventually became the second and third movies in the Thin Man franchise.
The Big Book of The Continental Op, 2017, Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
Obscurities and rarities, concentrating on Hammett’s early days as a writer.
Further obscurities and rarities, including several works appearing in print for the first time.
A treasure trove! If you can only buy one book of Hammett stories, buy this one.
Finally! All the Op stories in one place, including the hard-
A nice collection that includes some of the stories that Crime Stories missed.
If you wish to do an even deeper dive into Hammett’s work, the following books are also worthy of your consideration.
All of the stories in The Big Knockover are included in the collections mentioned above, with one exception: “Tulip,” a fragment of a novel that Hammett never finished.
The Big Knockover, 1989, Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
All five novels, including The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man.