Dashiell Hammett
author profile
born
December 13, 1901
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 3.87 — 3,346 ratings — published 1930 61 editions |
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The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 3.97 — 1,875 ratings — published 1934 24 editions |
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Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 4.00 — 893 ratings — published 1929 22 editions |
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The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 3.83 — 500 ratings — published 1931 20 editions |
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The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 4.11 — 421 ratings — published 1974 10 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 4.43 — 321 ratings — published 1965 8 editions |
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The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 3.63 — 381 ratings — published 1966 11 editions |
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The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 4.07 — 248 ratings — published 1972 4 editions |
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The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 4.20 — 135 ratings — published 2000 |
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Nightmare Town by Dashiell Hammett avg rating 3.95 — 136 ratings — published 1999 7 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)
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— 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)
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— 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)
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— Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon)
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