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About Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett ( duh-SHEEL HAM-it; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the characters he 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 fiction-mystery writers. In his obituary in The New York Times, he 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 his five novels for their 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. His novels and stories also had a significant influence on mystery films, including the style that came to be known as film noir.

Dashiell Hammett writes about American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, Private investigators, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, and Continental Op (Fictitious character). Their best-known work is The Maltese Falcon.

On FindMyTBR we track 52 books by Dashiell Hammett, 52 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including $106,000 Blood Money (Unabridged), A Sam Spade Audio Double-Feature Starring Howard Duff, Volume 1 (Unabridged), and After the Thin Man: A One-Hour Lux Theater Episode Plus Special Commentary (Unabridged). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.