Dashiell Hammett: 30 books
The Main Death and This King Business
Collected Case Files of the Continental Op: The Later Years, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
From the annals of Black Mask come the two-fisted adventures of the original hardboiled PI: Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op
Jeffrey Main comes home from Los Angeles with $20,000 in his wallet and a target on his back. Two gunmen burst through the door, instigating a scuffle that leaves...
by Dashiell Hammett
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Literary Thoughts edition presents The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories by Dashiell Hammett ------ "The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories" is a collection of seven short stories (three of them with Detective Sam Spade), written by American author of detective novels and...
by Dashiell HAMMETT
Language: French
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Trois nouvelles de Dashiell Hammett, trois visions de la ville.
Trois nouvelles de Dashiell Hammett, trois visions de la ville.
Cauchemar ville (1924) - Un coin tranquille (1925) - Crime en jaune (1925)
En inventant le récit noir et la figure du privé dans les colonnes de la revue...
by Dashiell Hammett
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
“This first unabridged appearance of two Nick and Nora Charles ‘novellas’ by Hammett should be an occasion for delight, and it is.” —The Wall Street Journal
Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett’s last—and most...
Nightmare Town
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and the incomparable master of detective fiction.
In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her...
by Dashiell Hammett
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894 – 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. This Collection includes 16 stories: Arson Plus Bodies Piled Up The Second-Story Angel The Road Home The Tenth Clew The Man Who Killed Dan Odams Night Shots Afraid Of A Gun Zigzags Of...
Arson Plus and Other Stories
Collected Case Files of the Continental Op: The Early Years, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Introducing the Continental Op—legendary hardboiled sleuth—in the first of seven short-story collections featuring Dashiell Hammett’s infamous detective
The house is soaked with gasoline, and it takes only a spark for it to be engulfed in flames. As the ruins smolder, the case-hardened...
Corkscrew and Other Stories
Collected Case Files of the Continental Op: The Middle Years, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
From the sands of Arizona to the alleys of the Tenderloin, the Continental Op deals out rough justice, in this collection of short stories from master of noir fiction Dashiell Hammett
In the Arizona desert, the sun’s high, the heat’s relentless, and there’s murder in the air. Across this...
Fly Paper: A Short Story
Introduction by Art Spiegelman
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2020
A ravishingly illustrated version of Dashiell Hammett's Fly Paper--his first truly hard-boiled story--with over two hundred water-based monochromes, that reimagine and recreate in unexpected ways the unsettling atmosphere and sensibility of Hammett's tale.
Hans Hillmann (1925-2014) was a German...
The Hunter
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
“This fascinating collection of hitherto unpublished or ungathered tales . . . will be a treat for any fan of the father of the hardboiled detective story.” —The Wall Street Journal
A unique publication from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, The Hunter and Other Stories...
by Dashiell Hammett
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op. In his novels and stories, Dashiell Hammett created some of the most memorable characters--detectives, dames, and assorted miscreants--in twentieth-century fiction. It is nearly impossible to imagine modern American literature without Hammett.
Vintage...
Who Killed Bob Teal? and Other Stories
Collected Case Files of the Continental Op: The Middle Years, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The Continental Op delves into his violent past and avenges a murdered partner in this collection of stories from master of hardboiled fiction Dashiell Hammett
When he joins the Continental Detective Agency, Bob Teal shows every sign of becoming a crack operative. Cool headed, quick witted,...
Creeping Siamese and Other Stories
Collected Case Files of the Continental Op: The Later Years, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Whether chasing hoodlums or solving impossible murders, Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op is one of the toughest detectives in the history of crime fiction
The Continental Op is going over his expense reports when a raw-boned man staggers through the door of his office, stretches out his...
It and Other Stories
Collected Case Files of the Continental Op: The Early Years, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The second volume of short stories featuring the adventures of crime fiction’s most hardboiled sleuth: the Continental Op
Dan Rathbone locks the bonds in the company safe, fully aware that $100,000 is a deadly temptation. He’s about to embark on a business trip, and he tells his partner...