Authors > Dashiell Hammett
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Red Harvest
When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty -- even if that meant taking on an entire town.
Year: 1929 Genre: Action, Hardboiled Detective
Secret Agent X-9
The Secret Agent X-9 strip was a dailies-only serial. This volume collects the complete Hammett/Raymond strips, plus the subsequent stories by Raymond and Leslie Charteris, famous himself for "The Saint" novels, as well as the Charteris stories drawn by Charles Flanders. Included are strips from January 22, 1934 through October 31, 1936.
Year: 1934 Genre: Hero Pulps
The Big Book of the Continental Op
Now for the first time ever in one volume, all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring the Continental Op--one of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction.
Genre: Hardboiled Detective
The Big Knockover
This collection of short stories is worth buying just for the twenty-page introduction by Lillian Hellman, a long time friend of Hammett and the executor of his estate. She gives a unique perspective of Hammett beyond any of the biographical informati
Genre: Hardboiled Detective
The Continental Op
The Continental Op, the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives, unravels a murder with too many clues and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman in these stories.
Genre: Hardboiled Detective
The Dain Curse
The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.
Year: 1929 Genre: Private Eye
The Glass Key
Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozen's of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him?
Year: 1931 Genre: Private Eye
The Maltese Falcon
Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, stars in Hammett's detective fiction, a novel that has haunted several generations of readers. The Maltese Falcon is Hammett's most famous work.
Year: 1930 Genre: Mystery, Private Eye, Stolen Goods
The Thin Man
Nick and Nora Charles are Dashiell Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.
Year: 1933 Genre: Murder Mystery
Woman in the Dark
On a dark night a young woman seeks refuge at an isolated house. 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 men who want her.
Year: 1933 Genre: Crime Fiction
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