Dashiell Hammett
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born
May 27, 1894
died
January 10, 1961
gender
male
place of birth
St. Mary's County, Maryland, The United States
genre
Mystery & Thrillers
about this author
Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse). 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."
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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 3.86 — 4,114 ratings — published 1929 67 editions |
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The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 3.97 — 2,190 ratings — published 1934 25 editions |
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Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 3.98 — 1,033 ratings — published 1929 24 editions |
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The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 3.82 — 575 ratings — published 1931 21 editions |
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The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 4.10 — 473 ratings — published 1974 11 editions |
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The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 3.67 — 429 ratings — published 1928 12 editions |
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Dashiell Hammett : Complete Novels : Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 4.42 — 347 ratings — published 1965 8 editions |
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The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 4.07 — 267 ratings — published 1972 4 editions |
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The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 4.14 — 166 ratings — published 2000 |
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Nightmare Town by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 3.90 — 150 ratings — published 1999 8 editions |
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"The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two."
— Dashiell Hammett (The Thin Man)
— Dashiell Hammett (The Thin Man)
"You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me."
— Dashiell Hammett (Red Harvest)
— Dashiell Hammett (Red Harvest)
"We didn't exactly believe your story, Miss O'Shaughnessy, we believed your 200 dollars. I mean you paid us more than if you had been telling us the truth, and enough more to make it alright. (Sam Spade)"
— Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon)
— Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon)
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