Dashiell Hammett (Author of The Maltese Falcon)

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Dashiell Hammett

Born

in Saint Mary's county, Maryland, The United States

May 27, 1894

Died

January 10, 1961

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Crime

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Also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett

Dashiell Hammett, an American, wrote highly acclaimed detective fiction, including The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man (1934).

Samuel Dashiell Hammett authored hardboiled novels and short stories. He created Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) among the enduring characters. In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in the New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction."

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Average rating: 3.9 · 227,176 ratings · 15,722 reviews · 464 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	The Maltese Falcon 3.87 avg rating — 112,305 ratings — published 1930 — 675 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thin Man 3.90 avg rating — 37,123 ratings — published 1934 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1) 3.95 avg rating — 28,862 ratings — published 1927 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glass Key 3.92 avg rating — 13,293 ratings — published 1931 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2) 3.79 avg rating — 8,231 ratings — published 1929 — 221 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Continental Op 4.14 avg rating — 6,556 ratings — published 1930 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels by Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman (Editor), Jeff Stone (老虎机稳赢方法 Author) (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 3,295 ratings — published 1927 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Novels: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man 4.39 avg rating — 2,226 ratings — published 1942 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightmare Town: Stories by Dashiell Hammett, Colin Dexter (Introduction), William F. Nolan (Introduction) 4.05 avg rating — 2,287 ratings — published 1999 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett, Robert Polito 4.30 avg rating — 1,980 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Continental Op (2 books)
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Quotes by Dashiell Hammett (?)

“The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

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“Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”
― Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

tags: stating-the-obvious

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“He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

tags: writing

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 104 pages, 1843

107 votes, 30.4%

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 505 pages, 1850

53 votes, 15.1%

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pages, 1957

41 votes, 11.6%

Middlemarch by George Eliot, 904 pages, 1871

38 votes, 10.8%

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, 213 pages, 1930

32 votes, 9.1%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 320 pages, 1984

30 votes, 8.5%

King Lear by William Shakespeare, 400 pages or less, 1603

26 votes, 7.4%

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, 528 pages, 1868

25 votes, 7.1%

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