Books written by Dashiell Hammett

  • The Hunter: And Other Stories
    The Hunter: And Other Stories

    . . . These stories are among Hammett’s best. . . . [His] prose is always savvy and sturdy, but for the man who invented ‘hard-boiled,’ it can also be surprisingly elegant.” —San Francisco Chronicle

  • Delphi Complete Works of Dashiell Hammett (Illustrated)
    Delphi Complete Works of Dashiell Hammett (Illustrated)

    CONTENTS: The Novels Red Harvest (1929) The Dain Curse (1930) The Maltese Falcon (1930) The Glass Key (1931) The Thin Man (1934) Tulip (1966) The Shorter Fiction The Continental Op Series The Adventures of Sam Spade The Thin Man Series ...

  • Arson Plus Illustrated
    Arson Plus Illustrated

    "Arson Plus" is the story that introduced the world to the Continental Op, the nameless detective whom Dashiell Hammett described as "a little man going forward day after day through mud and blood and death and deceit--as callous and brutal ...

  • Vintage Hammett
    Vintage Hammett

    Vintage Hammett features episodes from Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon, The Dain Curse, and The Thin Man; and stories featuring the Continental Op, including “The House in Turk Street,” “The Girl with the Silver Eyes," and "Flypaper ...

  • Detective Stories and Other Writings
    Detective Stories and Other Writings

    These stories introduce the Continental Op, the dispassionate operative from the Continental Detective Agency, a company molded on the Pinkerton Agency, for which Hammett worked prior to taking up writing.

  • The Maltese Falcon
    The Maltese Falcon

    "The Maltese Falcon" is a 1930 published detective novel by Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), telling the story of San Francisco based private detective Samuel "Sam" Spade, who gets hired by a beautiful young woman, "Miss Wonderly", to follow a ...

  • Woman in the Dark
    Woman in the Dark

    She is hurt and frightened. The man and woman who live there take her in. But their decency is utterly unequipped to deal with the Woman in the Dark, or with the designs of the men who want her.