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Dashiell Hammett


Born
in Saint Mary's county, Maryland, The United States
May 27, 1894

Died
January 10, 1961

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Also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett

Dashiell Hammett, an American, wrote highly acclaimed detective fiction, including The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man (1934).

Samuel Dashiell Hammett authored hardboiled novels and short stories. He created Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) among the enduring characters. 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

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The Thin Man

3.92 avg rating — 34,469 ratings — published 1933 — 743 editions
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Red Harvest (The Continenta...

3.96 avg rating — 26,998 ratings — published 1929 — 599 editions
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The Glass Key

3.93 avg rating — 12,389 ratings — published 1931 — 453 editions
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The Dain Curse (The Contine...

3.80 avg rating — 7,653 ratings — published 1929 — 357 editions
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The Continental Op

4.15 avg rating — 6,523 ratings — published 1930 — 78 editions
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The Big Knockover: Selected...

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Complete Novels: Red Harves...

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Nightmare Town: Stories

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Quotes by Dashiell Hammett  (?)
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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

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

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

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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, 1930, 213 pages, Group read: 2012
 
  78 votes, 25.5%

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  73 votes, 23.9%

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  69 votes, 22.5%

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, 1862, 1463 pages, Group read: 2011, 2014
 
  60 votes, 19.6%

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  26 votes, 8.5%

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