Author:Samuel Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammet
(1894–1961)

Dashiell Hammet

Works

Novels

• Red Harvest (1929)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025 due to Renewal R177772
• The Dain Curse (1929)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025 due to Renewal R185338
• The Maltese Falcon (1930)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2026 due to Renewal R205663
• The Glass Key (1931)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2027 due to Renewal R223618
• The Thin Man (1934)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2030 due to Renewal R269113

Series

The Continental Op

• "Arson Plus" (Black Mask, October 1, 1923) (as Peter Collinson)
• "Crooked Souls" ("The Gatewood Caper") (Black Mask, October 15, 1923) (as Peter Collinson)
• "Slippery Fingers" (Black Mask, October 15, 1923) (as Peter Collinson)
• "It" (Black Mask, November 1, 1923)
• "Bodies Piled Up" ("The House Dick") (Black Mask, December 1, 1923)
• "The Tenth Clew" ("The Tenth Clue") (Black Mask, January 1, 1924) (available at Library of America)
• "Night Shots" (Black Mask, February 1924)
• "Zigzags of Treachery" (Black Mask, March 1, 1924) (available at Library of America)
• "One Hour" (Black Mask, April 1924)
• "The House in Turk Street" (Black Mask, April 15, 1924)
• "The Girl with Silver Eyes" (Black Mask, June 1924)
• "Women, Politics and Murder" ("Death on Pine Street") (Black Mask, September 1924)
• "The Golden Horseshoe" (Black Mask, November 1924)
• "Who Killed Bob Teal?" (True Detective Stories, November 1924)
• "Mike, Alec or Rufus?" ("Tom, Dick or Harry") (Black Mask, January 1925)
• "The Whosis Kid" (Black Mask, March 1925)
• "The Scorched Face" (Black Mask, May 1925)
• "Corkscrew" (Black Mask, September 1925)
• "Dead Yellow Women" (Black Mask, November 1925)
• "The Gutting of Couffignal" (Black Mask, December 1925) (available at Library of America)
• "Creeping Siamese" (Black Mask, March 1926) (available at Library of America)
• "The Big Knock-Over" (Black Mask, February 1927)
• "$106,000 Blood Money" (Black Mask, May 1927)
• "The Main Death" (Black Mask, June 1927)
• "The Cleansing of Poisonville" (Black Mask, November 1927) - part of the novel Red Harvest
• "Crime Wanted—Male or Female" (Black Mask, December 1927) - part of the novel Red Harvest
• "Dynamite" (Black Mask, January 1928) - part of the novel Red Harvest
• "The 19th Murder" (Black Mask, February 1928) - part of the novel Red Harvest
• "This King Business"(Mystery Stories, January 1928)
• "Black Lives" (Black Mask, November 1928) (transcription project) - part of the novel The Dain Curse
• "The Hollow Temple" (Black Mask, December 1928) - part of the novel The Dain Curse
• "Black Honeymoon" (Black Mask, January 1929) - part of the novel The Dain Curse
• "Black Riddle" (Black Mask, February 1929) - part of the novel The Dain Curse
• "Fly Paper" (Black Mask, August 1929)
• "The Farewell Murder" (Black Mask, February 1930)
• "Death and Company" (Black Mask, November 1930)
• "Three Dimes" (partial draft and a set of notes, The Big Book of the Continental Op, 2017)

Other short works

• "The Barber and His Wife", 1922
• "The Parthian Shot", 1922
• "The Great Lovers", 1922 article
• "Immortality", 1922
• "The Road Home", 1922
• "The Master Mind", 1923
• "From the Memoirs of a Private Detective" (1923)
• "The Sardonic Star of Tom Doody", 1923
• "The Joke on Eoloise Morey", 1923
• "Holiday", 1923
• "The Crusader", 1923
• "The Green Elephant", 1923
• "The Dimple", 1923
• "Laughing Masks", 1923
• "In the Morgue", 1923
• "Itchy", 1924
• "Esther Entertains", 1924
• "Another Perfect Crime", 1925
• "Ber-Bulu", 1925
• "The Advertising Man Writes a Love Letter", 1926–1930
• "The Second-Story Angel", 1923–1926
• "The Man Who Killed Dan Odams", 1923–1926
• "Night Shots", 1923–1926
• "Afraid of a Gun", 1923–1926
• "Zigzags of Treachery", 1923–1926
• "The Assistant Murderer", 1923–1926
• "Nightmare Town", 1924
• "Ruffian's Wife", 1925

Poems

• "Caution to Travelers" (November 1925, The Lariat)
• "Goodbye to a Lady" (June 1927, The Stratford Magazine)
• "Curse in the Old Manner" (September 1927, The Bookman) (external scan)

Non-fiction

• "Poor Scotland Yard!", 1927 Jan 15 (book reviews)