21. Continental Detective Agency - Dashiell Hammett, Life, Works And More An exploration of the life and works of dashiell hammett, author of the Maltese Falcon and founder of the school of the hard boiled detective. http://www.transki.freeserve.co.uk/

Welcome to the Continental Detective Agency - we hope you like our new look! Our files explore the works and life of Samuel Dashiell Hammett , the creator of the Continental Op, author of The Maltese Falcon and the originator of the hard boiled school of detective fiction. Hammett was much more than a successful writer. In his lifetime he worked as a strikebreaker for the Pinkertons Detective Agency, whilst incapacitated with TB he wrote advertising copy, he had a spell as a Hollywood writer, he had an intimate friendship with the playwright Lillian Hellman and was persecuted and imprisoned by Joseph McCarthy. Oh and he blew all of his substantial earnings on women and alcohol! We hope to bring something of all of these aspects of Hammett's career to life in the pages of these files as well as discuss his works and his legacy as writer. Click on a drawer opposite to examine our files. If you have any queries, corrections or comments please contact us using our mailform We have received a number of requests for information on Lillian Hellman and now include a brief biography/summary of her work.

22. Dashiell Hammett, Page 01 A Short Biography Born in Maryland in 1894, Samuel dashiell hammett dropped out of school at fourteen. Over the next several years he held a string of menial jobs, http://www.mikehumbert.com/Dashiell_Hammett_01_Short_Bio.html

Hammett news page A short biography and F.A.Q. The Continental Op Blood Money Red Harvest The Dain Curse The Maltese Falcon: The novel The movie The 75th anniversary The Glass Key ... "Dashiell Hammett Place" Hammett's Post Street apartment: A photo tour (2005) Declared a landmark (2005) The Flood Building ... Mike Humbert's Idiosyncratic Guide to San Francisco This site is dedicated to all the people like Don Herron Bill Arney , Richard Layman, William F. Nolan , Josephine Hammett Marshall, Julie M. Rivett, Steven Marcus, Joe Gores and others who have kept 1920s San Francisco in the here and now. Special thanks to Vince Emery for his many helpful contributions to this website. A SHORT BIOGRAPHY Born in Maryland in 1894, Samuel Dashiell Hammett dropped out of school at fourteen. Over the next several years he held a string of menial jobs, from which he was usually fired. In 1915, he responded to an intriguingly vague classified ad, and soon found himself employed as a Pinkerton detective. Around 1922 he decided to stop being a detective and start writing about them. Appearing primarily in the pulp magazine Black Mask , Hammett's work soon became a favorite with readers. Bringing his real-life detective experience to his writing, he is today regarded as a founding father of the "hard-boiled" genre, as well as elevating detective fiction to the level of literature.

23. Dashiell Hammett, Mystery And Suspense Writer hammett, dashiell, Red Harvest, 1929. Character Continental Op hammett, dashiell, The Continental Op, Random House, New York, 1930. http://www.hycyber.com/MYST/hammett_dashiell.html

Samuel Dashiell Hammett Creator of the Hard-Boiled Detective Genre Novels Hammett, Dashiell, Red Harvest, 1929. Character: Continental Op The Dain Curse, Penguin, Middlesex, 1929. Characters: The Detective, Owen Fitzstephan The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man, 1932. Characters: Nick Charles, Nora Charles, Asta Woman in the Dark: A Novel of Dangerous Romance, Knopf, New York, 1933. ISBN: 0-394-57269-6 Characters: Brazil, Luise Fischer Original Short Fiction Hammett, Dashiell, The American Magazine Black Mask Black Mask (as Peter Collinson) Colliers Ellery Queen Saucy Stories Collections of Short Fiction Hammett, Dashiell, The Continental Op Random House, New York, 1930. ISBN: 0-394-48704-4 The Big Knockover Vintage, New York, 1966. ISBN: 0-679-73359-9 The Continental Op, Vintage, New York, 1974. ISBN: 0-679-72258-0 Nightmare Town Knopf, New York, 1999. ISBN: 0-375-40111-3 Sources of Biographical and Bibliogaphical Information Goldstone, Tony (ed.), Chapter 5. Detective and Mystery

24. Feature | Dashiell Hammett: Let's Talk About The Black Bird Featured are an excerpt of The Maltese Falcon s first chapter, biographical information about dashiell hammett, extensive lists of his works and the books http://januarymagazine.com/features/hammettintro.html

Features: There's Only One "Maltese Falcon" Distinguished Hammett biographer Richard Layman assesses the history, context and enduring popularity of The Maltese Falcon . That novel, Layman writes, "changed Hammett's life" not entirely for the better. It's Hammett, Damn It! Kevin Burton Smith gives the new collection, Vintage Hammett , a good working over and finds that, while this book may be skinny, it still packs a potent literary punch. Guns, Gams and Gratitude Dozens of modern crime novelists including George Pelecanos, S.J. Rozan, Peter Robinson, Denise Hamilton, Ken Bruen and Loren D. Estleman pay homage to the man who first set the standards (and created the conventions) for hard-boiled detective fiction. Related Links: The Thrilling Detective Web Site Featured are an excerpt of The Maltese Falcon 's first chapter, biographical information about Dashiell Hammett, extensive lists of his works and the books about him, and separate pages devoted to the author's best-known protagonists. Nightmare Town : A Review "Rough, Wild and On the Edge"

25. The Dashiell Hammett Tour - Hosted By Don Herron The dashiell hammett Tour. Travel with Don Herron over the fogshrouded hills stalked by Sam Spade, the Continental Op, and other hardboiled characters http://www.donherron.com/tour.html

"Since 1977, Don Herron has slipped on his trenchcoat and snap-brim hat to lead groups on a four-hour, three-mile investigation of Hammett sites..." — NEW YORK TIMES— "Theatrical and thoroughly immersed in Hammett arcana." — LOS ANGELES TIMES— "Hammett and the San Francisco of the 1920s come to life again." — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE— "The group moved like a drunken cat through the streets and back alleys of the Tenderloin. It passed Southeast Asian diners, tawdry hotels, bars without windows, and places where a twenty will buy you more than the weekend's groceries." — THE WALL STREET JOURNAL— The Dashiell Hammett Tour Travel with Don Herron over the fog-shrouded hills stalked by Sam Spade, the Continental Op, and other hardboiled characters created by San Francisco's most renowned mystery and noir writer. During this walk you'll see the buildings where Hammett wrote his most famous stories and the majority of locales from his classic novel, The Maltese Falcon.

26. Dashiell Hammett: Perfect Standard For The Hardboiled Detective 18941961. Samuel dashiell hammett was an American author, most often credited for creating the hardboiled detective genre. Although not the first to write http://www.vintagelibrary.com/pulpfiction/authors/Dashiell-Hammett.php

Vintage Library What's New Old Time Radio Pulp Fiction ... Books Book Categories Cozy Detective Fantasy Art Books Fantasy Fiction Fanzines ... Biographies Back to Vintage Books Store Options Shopping Cart Check Out More Store Options Clearance Sale ... Legends Online Since May 10, 1996 Dashiell Hammett: Perfected the Hardboiled Detective 1894-1961. Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author, most often credited for creating the hardboiled detective genre. Although not the first to write in this genre, Hammetts stories perfected the hard boiled formula. Hammett used his first hand knowledge of the detective buisness to create complex and exciting plots along with memorable and believable characters. He worked for the famed Pinkerton detective agency until tuburculosis forced him to find a less taxing form of work. His most famous novel, The Maltese Falcon , introduced Sam Spade, a surly, self-assured detective that defined the hard boiled character. He started his writing career working for one of the top pulp fiction magazines, Black Mask . Starting with a pseudonym of "Peter Collinson", he later dropped the name to use his own Middle (Dashiell) and last name, rather than his first, "Samuel."

27. Rodcorp: How We Work: Dashiell Hammett, Author How we work dashiell hammett, author. hammett published nothing after he was 39. In his later life, he said that he stopped publishing after The Thin Man http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2004/12/how_we_work_das.html

rodcorp art, architecture, books, maps, stories, and occasionally how teams and systems work. Main How we work: Dashiell Hammett, author Hammett published nothing after he was 39 . In his later life, he said that he stopped publishing after The Thin Man because he felt he was repeating himself: “It is the beginning of the end when you discover that you have a style.” He tried to change his style, but he never accomplished anything that satisfied him. More how we work Posted on December 06, 2004 in How we work Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/3402/1498671 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference How we work: Dashiell Hammett, author Comments hostName = '.typepad.com'; Post a comment Comments are moderated, and will not appear on this weblog until the author has approved them. If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account, please Sign In You are currently signed in as (nobody) Sign Out Name: Email Address: (Not displayed with comment.) URL: Remember personal info?

28. IACW/NA: News dashiell hammett Street, San Francisco. THE PRISONER OF GUANTÁNAMO NAMED WINNER OF NORTH AMERICAN hammett PRIZE The North American Branch of the http://www.crimewritersna.org/news/index.htm

Home Other Branches Hammett Prize News Translations IACW/NA Members Membership Links NEWS THE PRISONER OF GUANTÁNAMO NAMED WINNER OF NORTH AMERICAN HAMMETT PRIZE The North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers is pleased to announce that The Prisoner of Guantánamo , by Dan Fesperman (Knopf) has been named the winner of the organization's annual HAMMETT PRIZE for a work of literary excellence in the field of crime writing. The winning title was chosen by a group of three distinguished outside judges: Joe Drabyak, Managing Bookseller at the Chester County Book and Music Company and President of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA); Jill Lepore, Chair of the History and Literature Program at Harvard and author of New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth Century Manhattan; and Eric Ormsby, poet and essayist. The judges selected from among five finalists nominated from the hundreds of crime books published in 2006. These five titles were selected by the organization's nominations committee headed by Deen Kogan. Other books nominated for the 2006 HAMMETT PRIZE were Ghost Dancer: A Thriller , by John Case (Ballantine);

29. Vintage Crime/ Black Lizard dashiell Samuel hammett was born in St. Mary’s County. Written by dashiell hammett Trade Paperback Vintage Fiction Mystery Detective http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/blacklizard/catalog/results2.pperl?authorid=1

30. Dashiell Hammett's Legacy Lies Not Only In His Writing, But In His Living -- Rou dashiell hammett s legacy lies not only in his writing, but in his living rough, wild and on the edge. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/07/DDG3DB68LD1.DTL

31. Mark Coggins - 891 Post Street Don Herron, leader of the famous dashiell hammett San Francisco tourand author of the accompanying guidebookwas also present. http://www.immortalgame.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=DashiellHammett.891PostStreet

32. Dashiell Hammett Life Stories, Books, & Links Stories about dashiell hammett s life and A Daughter Remembers, The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man. With links to essays literary criticism and analysis. http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/dashiell.hammett.asp

TABLE OF CONTENTS Dashiell Hammett - Life Stories, Books, and Links Biographical Information Stories about Dashiell Hammett Selected works by this author Selected books about / related to this author ... Recommended links BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Dashiell Hammett Category: American Literature Born: May 27, 1894 St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States Died: January 10, 1961 New York City, New York, United States Related authors: Elmore Leonard Jim Thompson John Buchan Lillian Hellman ... list all writers Dashiell Hammett - LIFE STORIES Dashiell Hammett as Sam Spade Before Hammett, American detective fiction was in the Sherlock Holmes tradition: gentleman-sleuths, criminals gone barely or rarely bad, logical tales told in elegant sentences. Hammett didn't so much break this mold as snub it. His heroes are blue-collar, hard-working, wise-guys in a world gone slick and mean; like Hammett, they lived hard and talked little. Dashiell Hammett on Not Talking On this day in 1951, Dashiell Hammett was sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of court, having refused to give testimony before a judge representing the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hammett had little to conceal, but he was determined to offer nothing that might advance the Committee's mission of tracking "the footsteps of Karl Marx" through Hollywood.

33. Dashiell Hammett (1894 - 1961) - Find A Grave Memorial Search Amazon for dashiell hammett. Burial Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Arlington County Virginia, USA Plot Section 12, Lot 508, Grid Y/Z23 http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/438.html

34. Dashiell Hammett Bibliography - Checklist dashiell hammett UK bibliography , Sam Spade ,crime fiction ,dust wrapper, dust jacket , uk first editions ,. http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/hammettbib.htm

Dashiell Hammett Bibliography We urgently require ANY of the books listed on this page We are paying the VERY HIGHEST prices for choice items If you have anything you may consider selling Dashiell Hammett Wanted RED HARVEST Published in 1929 by Knopf in London Dust Wrapper priced at 7/6 THE DAIN CURSE Published in 1930 by Knopf in London Orange cloth with black lettering Dust Wrapper priced at 7/6 THE MALTESE FALCON Published in 1930 by Knopf in London Dust Wrapper priced at 7/6 THE GLASS KEY Published in 1931 by Knopf in London Blue cloth with red lettering Dust Wrapper priced at 7/6 THE THIN MAN Published in 1934 by Barker in London Orange cloth with black lettering Dust Wrapper priced at 7/6 See Picture home Books Wanted Bibliographies ... DW Artists

35. Hammett Bibliography dashiell hammett This is hammett s output, with year of publication, alternate titles (if any), Swedish titles, and the detective of the story. http://hem.passagen.se/orange/hammett.htm

DASHIELL HAMMETT: This is Hammett's output, with year of publication, alternate titles (if any), Swedish titles, and the detective of the story. At the very end of the bibliography (nos. 16-28) is a short story that has never appeared in a collection. Unfortunately, I don't have the publishing year for the last four stories. CO = The Continental Op SS = Sam Spade RT = Robin Thin RED HARVEST Röd skörd (CO) THE DAIN CURSE Förbannelsen (CO) THE MALTESE FALCON Malteserfalken (SS) THE GLASS KEY Glasnyckeln THE THIN MAN Den gäckande skuggan $106,000 BLOOD MONEY 1943 (Blood money/The big knock-over) Den lilla systern (CO) THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE 1944 (They can only hang you once) Too many have lived Alltför många har levt (SS) They can only hang you once Man kan bara bli hängd en gång (SS) A man called Spade En man kallad Spade (SS) The assistant murderer Lejd att mörda Nightshade The judge laughed last (The new racket) His brother's keeper THE CONTINENTAL OP (CO) Fly paper Flugpapper Death on Pine Street (Women, politics and murder)

36. Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961] At BlackHat Mystery Bookstore One of the acknowledged masters of the noir detective story dashiell hammett s novels other books, works by others about him, and movies/videos audio http://www.genordell.com/stores/blackhat/Hammett.htm

BlackHat Mystery Bookstore Dashiell Hammett here on Page One Profile Novels Short Stories Lillian Hellman on Page Two Other Works Works About D.H. Audio Books Videos ... 'Thin Man' movies S amuel Dashiell Hammett was born 27 May 1894 in Maryland. With his father too ill to work, 'Dash' left school at the age of 14 and held a wide range of jobs – messenger, clerk, timekeeper, machine operator, stevedore – until joining the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1915. He resigned in 1918 to enlist in the U.S. Army, where he contracted influenza and then tuberculosis, from which he suffered for the rest of his life. H e returned to Pinkerton's in 1920. His health went thru cycles of good and bad, and he entered local hospitals more than once. During one such stay, at the Veteran's Hospital in Spokane, Washington, he met nurse Josephine Anna 'Jose' Dolan. They moved to San Francisco and were married 7 July 1921; his daughter Mary Jane was born in October. T E ditors rejected many of Dash's stories before H.L. Mencken accepted "The Parthian Shot" for the October 1922 issue of The Smart Set Magazine . Dash's first sale to Black Mask Magazine was "The Road Home", published under the byline 'Peter Collison' in the December 1922 issue. The first appearance of the nameless 'Continental Op' character – modeled after his trainer/mentor at Pinkerton's, James Wright – was in "Arson Plus" in the October 1923 issue of

37. Metroactive Books | Joan Mellen dashiell hammett and Lillian Hellman were the reallife Nick and The three-decade-long relationship between dashiell hammett and Lillian Hellman ranks http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.18.96/books-9629.html

Books Index Metro Metroactive Central Archives Partners in Crime Azarnick Original Thin Man : Crime novelist Dashiell Hammett's best work was behind him by the time he embarked on a stormy, three-decade-long relationship with playwright Lillian Hellman. Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman were the real-life Nick and Norafor better and worse By Allen Barra A FEW YEARS AGO, while working on a piece about the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, I reread Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man for the first time in 15 years and was shocked. The wisecracking private eyes Nick and Nora Charles of my memory had been replaced by a pair of cynical, hard-drinking shrews who seemed at least as unsavory as the characters they were trying to put in jail. The reason for my faulty memory is simple: the Nick and Nora I liked were created by William Powell and Myrna Loy on screen, while, as Joan Mellen reveals in her meticulously researched new dual biography, Hellman and Hammett , the Nick and Nora of the novel were modeled after the real Dash and Lily. The three-decade-long relationship between Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman ranks with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and Jean Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir, in 20th-century literary legend.

38. Dashiell Hammett An internet bibliography for dashiell hammett, from LiteraryHistory.com. http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Hammett.htm

Dashiell Hammett (1894 - 1961) A selective bibliography of open access articles on Dashiell Hammett, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages main page 20th century authors 19th century authors ... about LiteraryHistory Literary criticism - Dashiell Hammett Freedman, Carl and Christopher Kendrick. "Forms of Labor in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest First page of article only. PMLA, Vol. 106, No. 2 (Mar., 1991), pp. 209-221 Harris, Martin. Hammett's Flitcraft Parable, The Stepfather, and the Significance of Falling Beams. Literature Film Quarterly, 2006 Horsley, Lee. A substantial introduction to Dashiell Hammett, from the Literary Encyclopedia, 10/20/01 Layman, Richard. A review of Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett . (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1981) Reviewed in the NYTimes by John Leonard, 7/8/81 Layman, Richard. Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960 Excerpt from Part One. Also, a review,

39. Dashiell Hammett News - The New York Times News about dashiell hammett. Commentary and archival information about dashiell hammett from The New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/dashiell_hammett/in

@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/topic/screen/200704/topic.css); Get Home Delivery Log In Register Now Home Page ... Times Topics Saturday, January 26, 2008 Times Topics World U.S. N.Y. / Region ... H > Hammett, Dashiell E-MAIL Save Dashiell Hammett News about Dashiell Hammett, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. ARTICLES ABOUT DASHIELL HAMMETT Newest First Oldest First Page: In a Case Worthy of Spade, the Falcon Has Flown Again By JESSE MCKINLEY A plaster replica of the Maltese Falcon was stolen from a restaurant in San Francisco. February 14, 2007 MORE ON DASHIELL HAMMETT AND: ROBBERIES AND THEFTS MOTION PICTURES BOOKS AND LITERATURE JOHN'S GRILL By DAVE KEHR October 3, 2006 MORE ON DASHIELL HAMMETT AND: DVD (DIGITAL VERSATILE DISK) MOTION PICTURES REVIEWS RECORDINGS AND DOWNLOADS (VIDEO) ... LEONE, SERGIO By STEPHEN HOLDEN March 31, 2006 MORE ON DASHIELL HAMMETT AND: MOTION PICTURES SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL (PARK CITY, UTAH) GORDON-LEVITT, JOSEPH HAAS, LUKAS ... FLEISS, NOAH By ADAM COHEN August 8, 2005

40. Samuel Dashiell Hammett, Sergeant, United States Army February 14, 2005, marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of dashiell hammett s The Maltese Falcon that riveting tale involving a San Francisco http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/shammett.htm

Samuel Dashiell Hammett Sergeant, United States Army - Author Born on May 27, 1894, he was a veteran of World War II, serving as a Sergeant in Alaska. He was a prolific writer, being the author of the "Sam Spade" mystery novels. He was a member of the Civil Rights Congress, a liberal political group which was targeted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as being a Communist front. He refused to name contributors to the organization and was sentenced to six months in jail for that refusal. He later became a virtual recluse in the tiny village of Katonah, New York, partly due to chronic health problems. He died there on January 10, 1961 and, as was his wish, he was buried in Section 12 of Arlington National Cemetery. At one point, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover attempted to block the burial but was overruled in that attempt. Sam Spade at 75 "The Maltese Falcon" celebrates its diamond anniversary. BY TOM NOLAN Thursday, February 10, 2005 The Pulitzer Prize for the best novel published in America in 1930 went to a book by Margaret Ayer Barnes titled "Years of Grace." But it was quite a different 1930 novel that would enter American cultural folklore and remain in print into the 21st century. February 14, 2005, marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon": that riveting tale involving a San Francisco private detective named Samuel Spade and a diverse crew of miscreants, all in search of a coveted 16th-century statuette. The anniversary will be commemorated, this month and next, by lectures, exhibits, and celebrations at the Library of Congress in Washington (near Hammett's Maryland birthplace, and his Arlington National Cemetery grave), and in San Francisco, where the story was written. And the novel is available from Vintage/Black Lizard in a newly packaged trade-paperback edition (as are two other Hammett books, and a new anthology, "Vintage Hammett").

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