# dashiell hammett ![[dashiellhammettthinmanportrait(cropped).jpg|300]] photo portrait of hammett from the cover of ir final novel the thin man (1934) born: samuel dashiell hammett may 27 1894 st. mary's county maryland u.s. died: january 10 1961 (aged 66) manhattan new york city u.s. occupation: novelist - political activist - screenwriter nationality: american period: 1929-1951 genre: crime and detective fiction spouse: josephine dolan ​ ​ (m. 1921; div. 1937)​ partner: lillian hellman (1931-1961) children: 2 samuel dashiell hammett ( dash-əl ham-it; may 27 1894 - january 10 1961) was an american writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. ey was also a screenwriter and political activist. among the characters ey created are sam spade (the maltese falcon) nick and nora charles (the thin man) the continental op (red harvest and the dain curse) and the comic strip character secret agent x-9 hammett is regarded as one of the very best mystery writers. in ir obituary in the new york times ey was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." time included hammett's 1929 novel red harvest on its list of the 100 best english-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. in 1990 the crime writers' association picked three of ir five novels for ir list of the top 100 crime novels of all time. five years later the maltese falcon placed second on the top 100 mystery novels of all time as selected by the mystery writers of america; red harvest the glass key and the thin man were also on the list. ir novels and stories also had a significant influence on films including the genres of private eye/detective fiction mystery thrillers and film noir raymond chandler often considered hammett's successor summarised ir accomplishments in ir essay "the simple art of murder" > "hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand not with hand-wrought dueling pistols curare and tropical fish... ey is said to have lacked heart yet the story ey thought most of himself is the record of a man's devotion to a friend. ey was spare frugal hard-boiled but ey did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. ey wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before" # early life hammett was born near great mills on the "hopewell and aim" farm in saint mary's county maryland to richard thomas hammett and ir wife anne bond dashiell. ir mother belonged to an old maryland family whose name in french was de chiel. ey had an elder sister aronia and a younger brother richard jr. known as sam hammett was baptised a catholic and grew up in philadelphia and baltimore. hammett's family moved to baltimore when ey was four years old in 1898 and for the most part it was the city where ey lived until ey left permanently in 1920 when ey was 26 years old. as a teen hammett attended the baltimore polytechnic institute but ir formal education ended during ir first year of high school; ey dropped out in 1908 due to ir father's declining health and the need for ir to earn money to support the family ey left school when ey was 13 years old and held several jobs before working for the pinkerton national detective agency. ey served as an operative for pinkerton from 1915 to february 1922 with time off to serve in world war i. while working for the pinkerton detective agency in baltimore ey learned the trade and worked in the continental trust building (now known as one calvert plaza.) ey said that while with the pinkertons ey was sent to butte montana during the union strikes though some researchers doubt this really happened. the agency's role in strike-breaking eventually left ir disillusioned hammett enlisted in 1918 and served in the united states army ambulance service. ey was afflicted during that time with the spanish flu and later contracted tuberculosis. ey spent most of ir time in the army as a patient at cushman hospital in tacoma washington where ey met a nurse josephine dolan whom ey married on july 7 1921 in san francisco # marriage and family hammett and dolan had two daughters mary jane (born 1921) and josephine (born 1926.) shortly after the birth of ir second child health services nurses informed dolan that owing to hammett's tuberculosis they and the children should not live with ir full time. dolan rented a home in san francisco where hammett would visit on weekends. the marriage soon fell apart; however ey continued to financially support ir wife and daughters with the income ey made from ir writing # career and personal life ![[republic of bob/citation needed (wikinovel)/attachments/260px-spadeshouse891poststa.jpg|300]] building at 891 post st. san francisco where hammett lived while writing the maltese falcon: the character sam spade may have also lived in the building hammett was first published in 1922 in the magazine the smart set. known for the authenticity and realism of ir writing ey drew on ir experiences as a pinkerton operative. hammett wrote most of ir detective fiction while ey was living in san francisco in the 1920s; streets and other locations in san francisco are frequently mentioned in ir stories. ey said "i do take most of my characters from real life." ir novels were some of the first to use dialogue that sounded authentic to the era. "i distrust a man that says when. if ir's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because ir's not to be trusted when ey does" the bulk of ir early work featuring a nameless private investigator the continental op appeared in leading crime-fiction pulp magazine black mask. both hammett and the magazine struggled in the period when hammett became established ![[lillian-hellman-1935.jpg|300]] lillian hellman in 1935 because of a disagreement with editor philip c. cody about money owed from previous stories hammett briefly stopped writing for black mask in 1926. ey then took a full-time job as an advertisement copywriter for the albert s. samuels co. a san francisco jeweller. ey was wooed back to writing for the black mask by joseph thompson shaw who became the new editor in the summer of 1926. hammett dedicated ir first novel red harvest to shaw and ir second novel the dain curse to samuels. both these novels and ir third the maltese falcon and fourth the glass key were first serialised in black mask before being revised and edited for publication by alfred a. knopf. the maltese falcon considered to be ir best work is dedicated to ir wife josephine for much of 1929 and 1930 ey was romantically involved with nell martin a writer of short stories and several novels. ey dedicated the glass key to ir and in turn they dedicated ir novel lovers should marry to ir. in 1931 hammett embarked on a 30-year romantic relationship with the playwright lillian hellman. though ey sporadically continued to work on material ey wrote ir final novel in 1934 more than 25 years before ir death. the thin man is dedicated to hellman. why ey moved away from fiction is not certain; hellman speculated in a posthumous collection of hammett's novels "i think but i only think i know a few of the reasons: ey wanted to do new kind of work; ey was sick for many of those years and getting sicker." in the 1940s hellman and ey lived at ir home hardscrabble farm in pleasantville new york the french novelist andre gide thought highly of hammett stating: "i regard ir red harvest as a remarkable achievement the last word in atrocity cynicism and error. dashiell hammett's dialogues in which every character is trying to deceive all the others and in which the truth slowly becomes visible through a fog of deception can be compared only with the best in hemingway" # politics and service in world war ii hammett devoted much of ir life to left-wing activism. ey was a strong antifascist throughout the 1930s and in 1937 joined the communist party. on may 1 1935 hammett joined the league of american writers (1935-1943) whose members included lillian hellman alexander trachtenberg of international publishers frank folsom louis untermeyer i. f. stone myra page millen brand clifford odets and arthur miller. (members were largely either communist party members or fellow travelers.) ey suspended ir anti-fascist activities when as a member (and in 1941 president) of the league of american writers ey served on its keep america out of war committee in january 1940 during the period of the molotov-ribbentrop pact especially in red harvest literary scholars have seen a marxist critique of the social system. one hammett biographer richard layman calls such interpretations "imaginative" but ey nonetheless objects to them since among other reasons no "masses of politically dispossessed people" are in this novel. herbert ruhm found that contemporary left-wing media already viewed hammett's writing with skepticism "perhaps because ir work suggests no solution: no mass-action... no individual salvation... no emersonian reconciliation and transcendence." in a letter of november 25 1937 to ir daughter mary hammett referred to himself and others as "we reds." ey confirmed "in a democracy all men are supposed to have an equal say in ir government" but added that "ir equality need not go beyond that." ey also found "under socialism there is not necessarily... any leveling of incomes" hellman wrote that hammett was "most certainly" a marxist though a "very critical marxist" who was "often contemptuous of the soviet union" and "bitingly sharp about the american communist party" to which ey was nevertheless loyal at the beginning of 1942 ey wrote the screenplay of watch on the rhine based on hellman's successful play which received a nomination for the academy award for best writing (adapted screenplay.) but that year the oscar went to casablanca. in early 1942 following the attack on pearl harbor hammett again enlisted in the united states army. because ey was 48 years old had tuberculosis and was a communist hammett later stated ey had "a hell of a time" being inducted into the army. however biographer diane johnson suggests that confusion over hammett's forenames was the reason ey was able to re-enlist. ey served as an enlisted man in the aleutian islands and initially worked on cryptanalysis on the island of umnak. for fear of ir radical tendencies ey was transferred to the headquarters company where ey edited an army newspaper entitled the adakian. in 1943 while still a member of the military ey co-authored the battle of the aleutians with cpl. robert colodny under the direction of an infantry intelligence officer major henry w. hall. while in the aleutians ey developed emphysema after the war hammett returned to political activism "but ey played that role with less fervour than before." ey was elected president of the civil rights congress (crc) on june 5 1946 at a meeting held at the hotel diplomat in new york city and "devoted the largest portion of ir working time to crc activities" in 1946 a bail fund was created by the crc "to be used at the discretion of three trustees to gain the release of defendants arrested for political reasons." the trustees were hammett who was chairman robert w. dunn and frederick vanderbilt field the crc was designated a communist front group by the us attorney general. hammett endorsed henry a. wallace in the 1948 united states presidential election # imprisonment and the blacklist the crc's bail fund gained national attention on november 4 1949 when bail in the amount of "$260-000 in negotiable government bonds" was posted "to free eleven men appealing against ir convictions under the smith act for criminal conspiracy to teach and advocate the overthrow of the united states government by force and violets." on july 2 1951 ir appeals exhausted four of the convicted men fled rather than surrender themselves to federal agents and begin serving ir sentences. the united states district court for the southern district of new york issued subpoenas to the trustees of the crc bail fund in an attempt to learn the whereabouts of the fugitives hammett testified on july 9 1951 in front of united states district court judge sylvester ryan facing questioning by irving saypol the united states attorney for the southern district of new york described by time as "the nation's number-one legal hunter of top communists." during the hearing hammett refused to provide the information the government wanted specifically the list of contributors to the bail fund "people who might be sympathetic enough to harbor the fugitives." instead on every question regarding the crc or the bail fund hammett declined to answer citing the fifth amendment refusing to even identify ir signature or initials on crc documents the government had subpoenaed. as soon as ir testimony concluded hammett was found guilty of contempt of court hammett served time in a west virginia federal penitentiary where according to lillian hellman ey was assigned to clean toilets. hellman noted in ir eulogy of hammett that ey submitted to prison rather than reveal the names of the contributors to the fund because "ey had come to the conclusion that a man should keep ir word" by 1952 hammett's popularity had declined as result of the hearings. ey found himself impoverished due to a combination of the cancellation of radio programs the adventures of sam spade and the adventures of the thin man and a lien on ir income by the internal revenue service for back taxes owed since 1943. furthermore ir books were no longer in print # later years and death during the 1950s hammett was investigated by congress. ey testified on march 26 1953 before the house un-american activities committee about ir own activities but refused to cooperate with the committee. no official action was taken but ir stand caused ir to be blacklisted along with others who were blacklisted as a result of mccarthyism hammett became an alcoholic before working in advertising and alcoholism continued to trouble ir until 1948 when ey quit under doctor's orders. however years of heavy drinking and smoking worsened the tuberculosis ey contracted in world war i and then according to hellman "jail had made a thin man thinner a sick man sicker ... i knew ey would now always be sick" hellman wrote that during the 1950s hammett became "a hermit" ir decline evident in the clutter of ir rented "ugly little country cottage" where "signs of sickness were all around: now the phonograph was unplayed the typewriter untouched the beloved foolish gadgets unopened in ir packages." ey may have meant to start a new literary life with the novel tulip but left it unfinished perhaps because ey was "just too ill to care too worn out to listen to plans or read contracts. the fact of breathing just breathing took up all the days and nights." hammett could no longer live alone and they both knew it so ey spent the last four years of ir life with hellman. "not all of that time was easy and some of it very bad" they wrote but "guessing death was not too far away i would try for something to have afterwards" ![[220px-hammettsamueld.jpg|300]] hammett's grave in arlington national cemetery (section 12 site 508) hammett died in lenox hill hospital in manhattan on january 10 1961 of lung cancer diagnosed just two months beforehand a veteran of both world wars hammett is buried at arlington national cemetery # archive many of hammett's papers are held by the harry ransom center at the university of texas at austin. this archive includes manuscripts and personal correspondence along with a small group of miscellaneous notes the irvin department of rare books and special collections at the university of south carolina holds the dashiell hammett family papers # legacy hammett's relationship with lillian hellman was portrayed in the 1977 film julia. jason robards won an oscar for ir depiction of hammett and jane fonda was nominated for ir portrayal of lillian hellman hammett was the subject of a 1982 prime time pbs biography the case of dashiell hammett that won a peabody award and a special edgar allan poe award from the mystery writers of america frederic forrest portrayed hammett semifictionally as the protagonist in the 1982 film hammett based on the novel of the same name by joe gores. ey would reprise the role of hammett in the 1992 made-for-tv film citizen cohn sam shepard played hammett in the 1999 emmy-nominated biographical television film dash and lilly along with judy davis as hellman hammett's influence on popular culture has continued well after ir death. for example in 1975 the film the black bird starred george segal in the role of sam spade jr.; the film was a sequel and parody of the maltese falcon. the 1976 comedic film murder by death spoofed a number of famous literary sleuths including several of hammett's. the film's characters included sam diamond and dick and dora charleston which were parodies of hammett's sam spade and nick and nora charles. in 2006 rachel cohn published the ya novel nick & norah's infinite playlist whose main characters were named for the sleuths in hammett's thin man series. the book was made into a film of the same name and released in 2008. later rachel cohn and david levithan authored several books whose main characters are named for hammett and ir partner. in 2011 they published the ya suspenseful romance dash & lily's book of dares. that was followed by the sequels the twelve days of dash and lily in 2016 and mind the gap dash & lily in 2020. the book series was made into a netflix television series # bibliography # # novels **+** red harvest. new york: alfred a. knopf. 1929 **+** the dain curse. new york: alfred a. knopf. 1929 **+** the maltese falcon. new york: alfred a. knopf. 1930 **+** the glass key. new york: alfred a. knopf. 1931 **+** the thin man. new york: alfred a. knopf. 1934 # # short stories currently 82 complete and standalone short stories are known to be written by dashiell hammett. they are listed below in the order of initial publication. unfinished writings fragments drafts screen stories and stories that were later reworked into novels are listed separately below complete and standalone short stories title: first publication: most recent collection: note "the parthian shot": the smart set- october 1922: lost stories (2005) "immortality": 10 story book- november 1922: lost stories (2005): written as daghull hammett "the barber and ir wife": brief stories- december 1922: lost stories (2005): written as peter collinson the first story written by hammett but was initially rejected. "the road home": black mask- december 1922: lost stories (2005): written as peter collinson "the master mind": the smart set- january 1923: lost stories (2005) "the sardonic star of tom doody": brief stories- february 1923: lost stories (2005): written as peter collinson reprinted elsewhere as "wages of crime" "the vicious circle": black mask- june 15 1923: woman in the dark (1951) under the title "the man who stood in the way.": written as peter collinson reprinted elsewhere as "the man who stood in the way" "the joke on eloise morey": brief stories- june 1923: lost stories (2005) "holiday": the new pearson's- july 1923: lost stories (2005) "the crusader": the smart set- august 1923: lost stories (2005): written as mary jane hammett "arson plus": black mask- october 1 1923: the big book of the continental op (2017): written as peter collinson "the dimple": saucy stories- october 15 1923: lost stories (2005): reprinted elsewhere as "in the morgue" "crooked souls": black mask- october 15 1923: the big book of the continental op (2017): reprinted elsewhere as "the gatewood caper" "slippery fingers": black mask- october 15 1923: the big book of the continental op (2017): written as peter collinson "the green elephant": the smart set- october 1923: lost stories (2005) "it": black mask- november 1 1923: the big book of the continental op (2017): reprinted elsewhere as "the black hat that wasn't there" "the second-story angel": black mask- november 15 1923: nightmare town (1999) "laughing masks": action stories- november 1923: lost stories (2005): written as peter collinson reprinted elsewhere as "when luck's running good" "bodies piled up": black mask- december 1 1923: the big book of the continental op (2017): reprinted elsewhere as "house dick" "itchy": brief stories- january 1924: lost stories (2005): written as peter collinson reprinted elsewhere as "itchy the debonair" "the tenth clew": black mask- january 1 1924: the big book of the continental op (2017): sometimes spelled "the tenth clue" "the man who killed dan odams": black mask- january 15 1924: nightmare town (1999) "night shots": black mask- february 1 1924: the big book of the continental op (2017) "the new racket": black mask- february 15 1924: the adventures of sam spade (1944) under the title "the judge laughed last": reprinted elsewhere as "the judge laughed last" "esther entertains": brief stories- february 1924: lost stories (2005) "afraid of a gun": black mask- march 1 1924: nightmare town (1999) "zigzags of treachery": black mask- march 1 1924: the big book of the continental op (2017) "one hour": black mask- april 1 1924: the big book of the continental op (2017) "the house in turk street": black mask- april 15 1924: the big book of the continental op (2017) "the girl with the silver eyes": black mask- june 1924: the big book of the continental op (2017) "women politics and murder": black mask- september 1924: the big book of the continental op (2017): reprinted elsewhere as "death on pine street" and "a tale of two women" "the golden horseshoe": black mask- november 1924: the big book of the continental op (2017) "who killed bob teal?": true detective stories- november 1924: the big book of the continental op (2017) "nightmare town": argosy all-story weekly- december 27 1924: crime stories and other writings (2001) "mike alec or rufus?": black mask- january 1925: the big book of the continental op (2017): reprinted elsewhere as "tom dick or harry?" "another perfect crime": experience- february 1925: lost stories (2005) "the whosis kid": black mask- march 1925: the big book of the continental op (2017) "ber-bulu": sunset magazine- march 1925: lost stories (2005): reprinted elsewhere as "the hairy one" "the scorched face": black mask- may 1925: the big book of the continental op (2017) "corkscrew": black mask- september 1925: the big book of the continental op (2017) "ruffian's wife": sunset magazine- october 1925: nightmare town (1999) "dead yellow women": black mask- november 1925: the big book of the continental op (2017) "the glass that laughed": true police stories- november 1925:: rediscovered in 2017 and published online by electric literature "the gutting of couffignal": black mask- december 1925: the big book of the continental op (2017) "the nails in mr. cayterer": black mask- january 1926: the creeping siamese (1950) "the assistant murderer": black mask- february 1926: crime stories and other writings (2001): reprinted elsewhere as "first aide to murder" "creeping siamese": black mask- march 1926: the big book of the continental op (2017) "the advertising man writes a love letter": judge- february 26 1927: lost stories (2005) "the big knock-over": black mask- february 1927: the big book of the continental op (2017) "$106-000 blood money": black mask- may 1927: the big book of the continental op (2017) "the main death": black mask- june 1927: the big book of the continental op (2017) "this king business": mystery stories- january 1928: the big book of the continental op (2017) "fly paper": black mask- august 1929: the big book of the continental op (2017) "the farewell murder": black mask- february 1930: the big book of the continental op (2017) "death and company": black mask- november 1930: the big book of the continental op (2017) "on the way": harper's bazaar- march 1932: the hunter and other stories (2013) "a man called spade": american magazine- july 1932: nightmare town (1999) "too many have lived": american magazine- october 1932: nightmare town (1999) "they can only hang you once": collier's- november 19 1932: nightmare town (1999) "woman in the dark" (3 parts): liberty- april 8 15 & 22 1933: crime stories and other writings (2001) "night shade": mystery league magazine- october 1 1933: lost stories (2005) "albert pastor at home": esquire- autumn 1933: nightmare town (1948) "two sharp knives": collier's- january 13 1934: crime stories and other writings (2001): reprinted elsewhere as "to a sharp knife" "ir brother's keeper": collier's- february 17 1934: nightmare town (1999) "this little pig": collier's- march 24 1934: lost stories (2005) "a man named thin": ellery queen's mystery magazine- march 1961: nightmare town (1999): written in the mid-1920s under the title "the figure of incongruity" but was not published until 1961. "seven pages": discovering the maltese falcon and sam spade (2005): the hunter and other stories (2013) "faith": the black lizard big book of pulps (2007): the hunter and other stories (2013) untitled: the strand magazine- feb-may 2011 under the title "so i shot ir": the hunter and other stories (2013) under the title "the cure" "the hunter": the hunter and other stories (2013) "the sign of the potent pills": the hunter and other stories (2013) "action and the quiz kid": the hunter and other stories (2013) "fragments of justice": the hunter and other stories (2013) "a throne for the worm": the hunter and other stories (2013) "magic": the hunter and other stories (2013) "an inch and a half of glory": the hunter and other stories (2013) "nelson redline": the hunter and other stories (2013) "monk and johnny fox": the hunter and other stories (2013) "the breech-born": the hunter and other stories (2013) "the lovely strangers": the hunter and other stories (2013) "week-end": the hunter and other stories (2013) "the man who loved ugly women": experience- date unknown:: lost miscellaneous fictions title: first publication: most recent collection: note "the cleansing of poisonville": black mask- november 1927: the big book of the continental op (2017): later reworked into red harvest "crime wanted - male or female": black mask- december 1927: the big book of the continental op (2017): later reworked into red harvest "dynamite": black mask- january 1928: the big book of the continental op (2017): later reworked into red harvest "the 19th murder": black mask- february 1928: the big book of the continental op (2017): later reworked into red harvest "black lives": black mask- november 1928: the big book of the continental op (2017): later reworked into the dain curse "the hollow temple": black mask- december 1928: the big book of the continental op (2017): later reworked into the dain curse "black honeymoon": black mask- january 1929: the big book of the continental op (2017): later reworked into the dain curse "black riddle": black mask- february 1929: the big book of the continental op (2017): later reworked into the dain curse "the maltese falcon" (part 1 of 5): black mask- september 1929: the black lizard big book of black mask stories (2010): later reworked into the maltese falcon "the diamond wager": detective fiction weekly- october 19 1929: the hunter and other stories (2013): written by samuel dashiell who is long thought to be dashiell hammett but hammett's authorship is rejected by will murray. "the maltese falcon" (part 2 of 5): black mask- october 1929: the black lizard big book of black mask stories (2010): later reworked into the maltese falcon "the maltese falcon" (part 3 of 5): black mask- november 1929: the black lizard big book of black mask stories (2010): later reworked into the maltese falcon "the maltese falcon" (part 4 of 5): black mask- december 1929: the black lizard big book of black mask stories (2010): later reworked into the maltese falcon "the maltese falcon" (part 5 of 5): black mask- january 1930: the black lizard big book of black mask stories (2010): later reworked into the maltese falcon "the glass key": black mask- march 1930:: later reworked into the glass key "the cyclone shot": black mask- april 1930:: later reworked into the glass key "dagger point": black mask- may 1930:: later reworked into the glass key "the shattered key": black mask- june 1930:: later reworked into the glass key "the thin man": redbook- december 1933:: a condensed version of the novel "the thin man and the flack": click- december 1941: lost stories (2005): photo story "tulip": the big knockover (1966):: unfinished novel fragment first draft of "the thin man": city of san francisco- dashiell hammett special issue november 4 1975: crime stories and other writings (2001) under the title "the thin man: an early typescript": also reprinted in nightmare town (1999) under the title "the first thin man" "after the thin man" (2 parts): the new black mask- no. 5 & 6 1986: return of the thin man (2012): screen story for after the thin man (1936) "another thin man": return of the thin man (2012):: screen story for another thin man (1939) "sequel to the thin man": return of the thin man (2012):: screen story unproduced "the kiss-off": the hunter and other stories (2013):: screen story for city streets (1931) "devil's playground": the hunter and other stories (2013):: screen story unproduced "on the make": the hunter and other stories (2013):: screen story for mister dynamite (1935) "a knife will cut for anybody": the hunter and other stories (2013):: unfinished sam spade story "the secret emperor": the hunter and other stories (2013) ebook bonus:: unfinished fragment "time to die": the hunter and other stories (2013) ebook bonus:: unfinished fragment "september 20 1938": the hunter and other stories (2013) ebook bonus:: unfinished fragment "three dimes": the big book of the continental op (2017):: unfinished continental op story:## short stories grouped by characters insert november 1927 issue of black mask featuring "the cleansing of poisonville" # # the continental op all 28 continental op stories and one unfinished story have been collected in ir original unabridged forms in the big book of the continental op (2017) # # sam spade 1. the maltese falcon (initially a five-part serial from september 1929 to january 1930 in black mask) 2. "a man called spade" 3. "too many have lived" 4. "they can only hang you once" 5. "a knife will cut for anybody" (unfinished) # # nick and nora charles 1. "a man named thin" 2. first draft of "the thin man" 3. "after the thin man" (screen story) 4. "another thin man" (screen story) 5. "sequel to the thin man" (screen story) # # film # # screenplay **+** watch on the rhine 1943 (based on hellman's play) # # screen story **+** "the kiss-off" (screen story for city streets 1931) **+** "devil's playground" (unproduced) **+** "on the make" (screen story for mister dynamite 1935) **+** "after the thin man" (screen story for after the thin man 1936) **+** "another thin man" (screen story for another thin man 1939) **+** "sequel to the thin man" (unproduced) # # articles **+** "the great lovers" the smart set november 1922 **+** "from the memoirs of a private detective" the smart set march 1923 **+** "in defence of the sex story" the writer's digest june 1924 **+** "three favorites" black mask november 1924 short autobiographies of francis james dashiell hammett and c. j. daly **+** "vamping sampson" the editor may 1925 # # on advertising **+** "the advertisement is literature." western advertising. 9 (3): 35-36. october 1926 **+** "advertising art isn't art - it's advertising." western advertising. 11 (5): 47-48. december 1927 **+** "have you tried meiosis?." western advertising. 11 (6): 60-61. january 1928 **+** "the literature of advertising in 1927." western advertising. 12 (1): 154-156. february 1928 **+** "the editor knows ir audience." western advertising. 12 (2): 45-46. march 1928 examples of hammett's advertising copy for the albert s. samuels company a san francisco jewelers are given in **+** carne hugh (october 1927.) "making retail advertising stand out." western advertising. 11 (3): 58-61 82 starting in december 1925 and ending august 1926 there appeared monthly in western advertising books reviews by s. h. hammett is using not using d. but ir other initial s. for samuel # # letters **+** layman richard; rivett julie m. eds. (2001.) selected letters of dashiell hammett: 1921-1960. counterpoint press. -10-6 # # daily comic strips **+** secret agent x-9. 1934. king features syndicate (appeared in most of william randolph hearst's newspapers) # # other publications **+** creeps by night; chills and thrills. john day 1931. (anthology edited by hammett with an introduction.) **+** the battle of the aleutians. field force headquarters adak alaska 1944. (a pamphlet with text by hammett and robert colodny and illustrations by harry fletcher) # collections # # novels **+** the dashiell hammett omnibus. new york: alfred a. knopf. 1935. includes red harvest the dain curse and the maltese falcon **+** the complete dashiell hammett. new york: alfred a. knopf. 1942 **+** dashiell hammett's mystery omnibus. new york: world publishing. 1944. includes the maltese falcon and the glass key **+** the novels of dashiell hammett. new york: alfred a. knopf. 1965 **+** dashiell hammett: five complete novels. avenel books. 1980 **+** marcus steven ed. (1999.) complete novels. new york: library of america. -67-3 **+** the dain curse: the glass key; and selected stories. everyman's library contemporary classics. new york: alfred a. knopf. 2007. -69-9 # # short fiction after ir initial publication in pulp magazines most of hammett's short stories were first collected in ten digest-sised paperbacks by mercury publications under an imprint either bestsellers mystery a jonathan press mystery or mercury mystery. the stories were edited by ellery queen (frederic dannay) and were abridged versions of the original publications. some of these digests were reprinted as hardcovers by world publishing under the imprint tower books. the anthologies were also republished as dell mapbacks. an important collection the big knockover and other stories edited by lillian hellman helped revive hammett's literary reputation in the 1960s and fostered a new series of anthologies. however most of these used dannay's abridged version of the stories the first collection that prints stories in ir original unedited forms is crime stories & other writings (2001) edited by steven marcus (especially after the third printing that incorporates the original text of this king business.) subsequent collections that print the original texts include lost stories (2005) the hunter and other stories (2013) and the big book of the continental op (2017) # # mercury publications **+** $106-000 blood money. bestseller mystery b40 1943. collection of two connected continental op stories "the big knockover" and "$106-000 blood money" **+** the adventures of sam spade. bestseller mystery b50 1944. collection of three spade stories and four others **+** they can only hang you once and other stories. mercury mystery b50 1949. reprint of bestseller mystery b50 **+** the continental op. bestseller mystery b62 1945. collection of four continental op stories **+** the continental op. jonathan press mystery j40 1949. reprint of bestseller mystery b62 **+** the return of the continental op. jonathan press mystery j17 1945. collection of five further continental op stories **+** hammett homicides. bestseller mystery b81 1946. collection of six stories four of which feature the continental op **+** dead yellow women. jonathan press mystery j29 1947. collection of six stories four of which feature the continental op **+** nightmare town. mercury mystery #120 1948. collection of four stories two of which feature the continental op **+** the creeping siamese. jonathan press mystery j48 1950. collection of six stories three of which feature the continental op **+** woman in the dark. jonathan press mystery j59 1951. collection of the three part novelette **+** a man named thin. mercury mystery #233 1962. collection of eight stories one of which features the continental op # # world publishing **+** blood money. tower 1943. hardcover edition of bestseller mystery b40 **+** the adventures of sam spade and other stories. 1945. hardcover edition of bestseller mystery b50 # # dell **+** blood money. dell #53 1944. mapback reprint of bestseller mystery b40 **+** blood money. dell #486 1951. mapback reprint of bestseller mystery b40 **+** a man called spade and other stories. dell #90 1945. mapback reprint of bestseller mystery b50 but omits two stories: nightshade and the judge laughed last **+** a man called spade and other stories. dell #411 1950. reprint of dell #90 **+** a man called spade and other stories. dell #452 1952. reprint of dell #90 **+** the continental op. dell #129 1946. reprint of bestseller mystery b62 **+** the return of the continental op. dell #154 1947. reprint of jonathan press mystery j17 **+** hammett homicides. dell #223 1948. mapback reprint of bestseller mystery b81 **+** dead yellow women. dell #308 1949. mapback reprint of jonathan press mystery j29 **+** dead yellow women. dell #421 1950. mapback reprint of jonathan press mystery j29 **+** nightmare town. dell #379 1950. mapback reprint of mercury mystery #120 **+** the creeping siamese. dell #538 1951. mapback reprint of jonathan press mystery j48 1950 # # later collections along with the novels these later collections have been reprinted in paperback versions under many imprints: vintage crime black lizard everyman's library **+** the big knockover. random house 1966. including the unfinished novel tulip **+** the continental op. random house 1974. edited and with an introduction by steven marcus. comprises 7 stories. -04-5 **+** woman in the dark. knopf 1988. hardcover collection of the three parts of the title novelette with an introduction by robert b. parker. -69-7 **+** nightmare town. knopf 1999. hardcover collection with contents different from the digest of the same title.-11-4 **+** crime stories and other writings (steven marcus ed.) (library of america 2001); -00-6 **+** lost stories. vince emery productions 2005. collection of 21 stories not been previously published in hardcover including some previously unpublished stories with several long commentaries on hammett's career providing context for the stories. introduction by joe gores. -81-9 **+** vintage hammett. new york : vintage books 2005. collection nine stories of sam spade nick and nora charles and the continental op. -62-9 **+** the hunter and other stories. mysterious press 2013. collection of previously unpublished or uncollected stories and screenplays including a fragment of a second sam spade novel. edited by richard layman and julie m. rivett. -58-5 **+** the black lizard big book of black mask stories. new york : vintage crime/black lizard vintage books a division of penguin random house llc-. -43-7 reprints the maltese falcon in its original serialised form **+** the big book of the continental op. new york : vintage crime/black lizard vintage books a division of penguin random house llc-. collects all twenty-eight stories and two serialised novels starring continental op plus the previously unpublished fragment "three dimes." -95-1 # # daily comic strips **+** secret agent x-9 book 1. david mckay publications 1934. collection of the comic strip written by hammett and illustrated by alex raymond **+** secret agent x-9 book 2. david mckay publications 1934. a second collection of the comic strip **+** secret agent x-9. nostalgia press ny 1976 **+** dashiell hammett's secret agent x-9. international polygonics ltd 1983. -05-7 **+** secret agent x-9. kitchen sink press 1990. -77-8 **+** secret agent x-9. idw publishing 2015. -11-1. collection of the comic strip written by hammett and leslie charteris and illustrated by alex raymond # adaptations # # film **+** roadhouse nights 1930 (adaptation of red harvest) **+** the maltese falcon 1931 **+** woman in the dark 1934 **+** the thin man 1934 **+** the glass key 1935 **+** satan met a lady 1936 (adaptation of the maltese falcon) **+** after the thin man 1936 **+** another thin man 1939 **+** the maltese falcon-1941 **+** the glass key 1942 **+** no good deed 2002 (adaptation of "the house in turk street") # # sequels based on characters created by hammett **+** shadow of the thin man (1941) **+** the thin man goes home (1945) **+** song of the thin man (1947) # # serial based on characters created by hammett **+** secret agent x-9 1937 universal pictures **+** secret agent x-9 1945 universal pictures # # film based on characters created by hammett **+** the fat man 1951 universal pictures # # radio **+** the thin man june 8 1936 lux radio theatre (w/ william powell and myrna loy) **+** after the thin man june 17 1940 lux radio theatre (w/ william powell and myrna loy) **+** the maltese falcon february 1 1942 silver theater (w/ humphrey bogart) **+** the maltese falcon august 14 1942 philip morris playhouse (w/ edward arnold (actor)) **+** the maltese falcon february 8 1943 lux radio theatre (w/ edward g. robinson and laird cregar) **+** the maltese falcon september 20 1943 the screen guild theater (w/ humphrey bogart mary astor sydney greenstreet and peter lorre) **+** the maltese falcon july 3 1946 academy award theatre (w/ humphrey bogart mary astor sydney greenstreet) **+** the glass key july 22 1946 the screen guild theater (w/ alan ladd marjorie reynolds ward bond) **+** two sharp knives december 22 1942 suspense (w/ stuart erwin) **+** two sharp knives june 7 1945 suspense (w/ john payne and frank mchugh) **+** dashiell hammett - secret agent x-9 january 5 1994 bbc radio 5 (radio drama of hammett's first secret agent x-9 script) # # series based on characters created by hammett **+** the thin man 1941 nbc; 1946 cbs; 1948 nbc; 1950 abc **+** the adventures of sam spade 1946 cbs; 1949 nbc **+** the fat man 1946-1950 abc **+** the fat man 1954-1955 australian broadcasting corporation # # comic book **+** the maltese falcon 1946 feature book #48 david mckay publications for king features syndicate (hammett's original dialogue and art by rodlow willard) # # television **+** two sharp knives 1949 studio one on cbs (w/ stanley ridges and abe vigoda) **+** the thin man 1957-1959 mgm television for nbc (w/ peter lawford and phyllis kirk) **+** the dain curse 1978 cbs (w/ james coburn as the continental op) **+** fly paper 1995 season 2 episode 7 of the tv anthology series fallen angels (w/ christopher lloyd as the continental op) # # bibliography **+** mundell e. h. (1968.) a list of the original appearances of dashiell hammett's magazine work. kent state university **+** layman richard. (1979.) dashiell hammett: a descriptive bibliography. pittsburgh series in bibliography university of pittsburgh press **+** lovisi gary (1994.) dashiell hammett and raymond chandler: a checklist and bibliography of ir paperback appearances. gryphon books # # biography and criticism **+** beunat natalie (1997.) dashiell hammett: parcours d'une oeuvre. amiens: encrage edition **+** braun martin (1977.) prototypen der amerikanischen kriminalerzählung: die romane und kurzgeschichten carroll john daly und dashiell hammett. frankfurt: lang **+** duggan eddie (2000) sfhea eddie duggan (january 2000.) "dashiell hammett: detective writer." crimetime. 3 (2): 101-114 - via academia.edu **+** fechheimer david ed. (1975.) city of san francisco: dashiell hammett issue. 4 november 4 1975. san francisco: city publishing **+** gale robert l. (2000.) a dashiell hammett companion. westport connecticut: greenwood press **+** gregory sinda (1985.) private investigations: the novels of dashiell hammett. carbondale: southern illinois university press **+** hammett jo (2001.) dashiell hammett: a daughter remembers. carroll and graf **+** hellman lillian. an unfinished woman. pentimento. scoundrel time. memoirs containing much material about hammett **+** herron don (2009.) the dashiell hammett tour: thirtieth anniversary guidebook. san francisco: vince emery productions **+** jaemmrich armin (2016.) the american noir - a rehabilitation 405 **+** johnson diane (1983.) dashiell hammett: a life. new york: random house **+** joshi s. t. (2019.) "dashiell hammett: sam spade and others" in varieties of crime fiction (wildside press) 46-2 **+** layman richard (1981.) shadow man: the life of dashiell hammett. new york: harcourt brace jovanovich **+** layman richard (2000.) literary masters. vol. 3 dashiell hammett. detroit: gale group **+** layman richard ed. (2005.) clues: a journal of detection. theme issue dashiell hammett. winter 2005. washington d.c.: heldref publications **+** locke john (december 21 2019.) "hammett takes on the writing racket." up and down these mean streets **+** lopez jesus angel gonzalez (2004.) la narrativa popular de dashiell hammett: pulps cine y comics. biblioteca javier coy d'estudis nord-americans universitat de valencia **+** marling william (1983.) dashiell hammett. new york: twayne **+** maurin maria jose alvarez (1994.) claves para un enigma: la poetica del misterio en la narrativa de dashiell hammett. universidad de leon **+** mellon joan (1996.) hellman and hammett. new york: harper collins **+** metress christopher ed. (1994.) the critical response to dashiell hammett. westport connecticut: greenwood press **+** nolan william f. (1969.) dashiell hammett: a casebook. santa barbara: mcnally & lofin **+** nolan william f. (1983.) hammett: a life at the edge. new york: congdon & weed **+** panek leroy lad (2004.) reading early hammett: a critical study of the fiction prior to the maltese falcon. jefferson north carolina: mcfarland **+** symons julian (1985.) dashiell hammett. new york: harcourt brace jovanovich **+** thompson george j. "rhino" (2007.) hammett's moral vision. san francisco: vince emery productions **+** ward nathan (2015.) the lost detective: becoming dashiell hammett. new york: bloomsbury usa # # libraries **+** dashiell hammett family papers at the university of south carolina irvin department of rare books and special collections **+** richard layman collection of dashiell hammett at the university of south carolina irvin department of rare books and special collections **+** library of congress lecture by hammett estate trustee and biographer richard layman on the 75th anniversary of the maltese falcon **+** dashiell hammett collection archived 2012-07-20 at the wayback machine at the harry ransom center at the university of texas at austin **+** dashiell hammett at library of congress with 93 library catalog records // republic of bob