Dashiell Hammett





Dashiell Hammett

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born
May 27, 1894 in St. Mary's County, Maryland, The United States

died
January 10, 1961

gender
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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 (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
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 16,206 ratings — published 1930 — 79 editions
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The Thin Man
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 6,074 ratings — published 1932 — 33 editions
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Red Harvest
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 3,896 ratings — published 1929 — 32 editions
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The Glass Key
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,978 ratings — published 1931 — 30 editions
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The Dain Curse
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 1,374 ratings — published 1929 — 21 editions
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The Continental Op
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 1,226 ratings — published 1945 — 13 editions
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 563 ratings — published 1966 — 9 editions
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The Maltese Falcon, The Thin M...
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 413 ratings — published 1948 — 9 editions
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More books by Dashiell Hammett…
Red Harvest The Dain Curse The Big Knockover: Selected St... The Continental Op The Return of the Continental... Nightmare Town
The Continental Op (6 books)
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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

“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

“He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.”
Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

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