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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: 3.94 · 173,829 ratings · 10,721 reviews · 269 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Maltese Falcon 3.91 avg rating — 84,862 ratings — published 1929 — 826 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 — 26,558 ratings — published 1934 — 428 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 — 22,347 ratings — published 1929 — 370 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 3.95 avg rating — 10,707 ratings — published 1931 — 274 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 — 5,979 ratings — published 1930 — 43 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 — 6,546 ratings — published 1929 — 208 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 — 3,127 ratings — published 1972 — 36 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 — 1,800 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 4.40 avg rating — 2,002 ratings — published 1942 — 27 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 — 2,143 ratings — published 1999 — 32 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 (2 books)
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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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December 2017 Revisit the Shelf Reread Poll

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 104 pages, 1843

109 votes, 29.9%

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 505 pages, 1850

56 votes, 15.4%

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pages, 1957

42 votes, 11.5%

Middlemarch by George Eliot, 904 pages, 1871

40 votes, 11.0%

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, 213 pages, 1930

34 votes, 9.3%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 320 pages, 1984

30 votes, 8.2%

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27 votes, 7.4%

King Lear by William Shakespeare, 400 pages or less, 1603

26 votes, 7.1%

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