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Dashiell Hammett

Born

in St. Mary's County, Maryland, The United States

May 27, 1894

Died

January 10, 1961

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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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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Dashiell Hammett’s books

Average rating: 3.95 · 153,261 ratings · 9,022 reviews · 245 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Maltese Falcon 3.92 avg rating — 73,988 ratings — published 1930 — 254 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thin Man 3.96 avg rating — 23,755 ratings — published 1934 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Harvest 3.98 avg rating — 19,839 ratings — published 1929 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glass Key 3.96 avg rating — 9,706 ratings — published 1931 — 100 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Continental Op 4.16 avg rating — 5,587 ratings — published 1930 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dain Curse 3.84 avg rating — 5,968 ratings — published 1929 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels by Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman (Editor) , Jeff Stone (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 2,953 ratings — published 1972 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest 4.31 avg rating — 1,689 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Novels: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, Steven Marcus (Editor) 4.39 avg rating — 1,885 ratings — published 1942 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightmare Town by Dashiell Hammett, Colin Dexter (Introduction) , William F. Nolan (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.05 avg rating — 2,016 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Continental Op (6 books)
by

Dashiell Hammett,

Colin Dexter (Introduction)

William F. Nolan (Goodreads Author) (Introduction)

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Quotes by Dashiell Hammett

“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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“Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”
― Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

tags: stating-the-obvious

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

tags: writing

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April 2017 Revisit the Shelf Reread

Emma by Jane Austen, 474 pages, 1815

52 votes, 14.7%

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 329 pages, 1856

44 votes, 12.5%

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, 464 pages, 1847

40 votes, 11.3%

East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 601 pages, 1952

25 votes, 7.1%

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, 225 pages, 1876

24 votes, 6.8%

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, 121 pages, 1898

23 votes, 6.5%

Dune by Frank Herbert, 604 pages, 1965

21 votes, 5.9%

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 326 pages, 1929

19 votes, 5.4%

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, 518 pages, 1891

18 votes, 5.1%

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, 204 pages, 1905

15 votes, 4.2%

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, 489 pages, 1848

14 votes, 4.0%

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, 360 pages, 1909

13 votes, 3.7%

King Lear by William Shakespeare, 338 pages, 1603

13 votes, 3.7%

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages, 1882

12 votes, 3.4%

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, 213 pages, 1930

11 votes, 3.1%

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 974 pages, 1849

9 votes, 2.5%

353 total votes

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