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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, Crime

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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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Average rating: 3.93 · 190,439 ratings · 11,434 reviews · 275 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Maltese Falcon 3.90 avg rating — 93,838 ratings — published 1929 — 912 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 3.95 avg rating — 29,838 ratings — published 1934 — 490 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 3.97 avg rating — 25,117 ratings — published 1929	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 3.95 avg rating — 11,098 ratings — published 1931 — 314 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 3.83 avg rating — 6,779 ratings — published 1929 — 238 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 4.15 avg rating — 6,103 ratings — published 1930 — 47 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 — 3,155 ratings — published 1972 — 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 Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest 4.31 avg rating — 1,833 ratings — published 1987 — 4 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 4.39 avg rating — 2,040 ratings — published 1942 — 28 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: Stories by Dashiell Hammett, Colin Dexter (Introduction), William F. Nolan (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.05 avg rating — 2,185 ratings — published 1999 — 35 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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Series by Dashiell Hammett

The Continental Op (2 books)
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The Continental Op (1 book)
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3.32 avg rating — 60 ratings

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3.48 avg rating — 48 ratings

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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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Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

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Tin Toys Trilogy by Ursula Holden

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So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

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Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal

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