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Dashiell Hammett

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: May 26 1894

Died: 0909 01 19611961

Also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade , Nick and Nora Charles , and the Continental Op . In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in the New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction."

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell...

Dashiell Hammett

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: May 26 1894

Died: 0909 01 19611961

Also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade , Nick and Nora Charles , and the Continental Op . In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in the New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction."

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell...

Books from Dashiell Hammett

The Thin Man

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Glass Key

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Continental Op

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Maltese Falcon

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Nightmare Town: Stories

The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Red Harvest

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Complete Novels: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Return of the Thin Man

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Dain Curse

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Lost Stories

3.9/5 ( ratings)

American Crime Stories

3.2/5 ( ratings)

The Hunter and Other Stories

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Arson Plus: A Continental Op Short Story

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Big Book of the Continental Op

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Detective Megapack

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Assistant Murderer

3.3/5 ( ratings)