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Dashiell Hammett

Born

in Saint 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

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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Dashiell Hammett’s books

Average rating: 3.92 · 205,612 ratings · 13,376 reviews · 371 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Maltese Falcon 3.89 avg rating — 100,709 ratings — published 1930 — 1010 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 3.92 avg rating — 33,193 ratings — published 1933 — 558 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 (The Continental Op #1) 3.96 avg rating — 26,296 ratings — published 1929 — 477 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 3.93 avg rating — 12,077 ratings — published 1931 — 57 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 (The Continental Op #2) 3.81 avg rating — 7,392 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 Continental Op 4.15 avg rating — 6,414 ratings — published 1930 — 52 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) 4.17 avg rating — 3,250 ratings — published 1966 — 44 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 — 2,140 ratings — published 1942 — 26 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 (Introduction) 4.05 avg rating — 2,246 ratings — published 1999 — 41 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 — 1,908 ratings — published 1987 — 8 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

103 likes

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

tags: writing

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February 2017 Revisit the Shelf Reread Poll

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 311 pages, 1985

67 votes, 23.0%

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 496 pages, 1943

47 votes, 16.2%

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages, 1883

35 votes, 12.0%

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, 521 pages, 1854

32 votes, 11.0%

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 296 pages, 1929

23 votes, 7.9%

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, 1463 pages, 1862

21 votes, 7.2%

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

20 votes, 6.9%

Dune by Frank Herbert, 604 pages, 1965

20 votes, 6.9%

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, 213 pages, 1930

16 votes, 5.5%

Rob Roy by Walter Scott, 501 pages, 1817

5 votes, 1.7%

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 560 pages, 1951

5 votes, 1.7%

291 total votes

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