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Dashiell Hammett

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Dashiell Hammett was born in St. Marys County, Maryland, in 1894. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. He left school at the age of fourteen and held several jobs thereafter -- messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator, and stevedore. He finally became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. World War I, in which he served as a sergeant, interrupted his sleuthing and injured his health. When he was finally discharged from the last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. Subsequently, he turned to writing, and in the late 1920s he became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. During World War II, Mr. Hammett again served in the army, this time for more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians. He died in 1961. His books The Big Knockover, The Continental Op, The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest,
The Thin Man
, and Woman in the Dark are available in Vintage paperback.

Dashiell Hammett Books

Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest - A Continental Op Mystery - Unabridged book cover

Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest - A Continental Op Mystery - Unabridged

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The Complete Dashiell Hammett Short Story Collection - Vol. III - Unabridged book cover

The Complete Dashiell Hammett Short Story Collection - Vol. III - Unabridged

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The Maltese Falcon book cover

The Maltese Falcon

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The Dain Curse book cover

The Dain Curse

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Red Harvest book cover

Red Harvest

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Dashiell Hammett's The Dain Curse - A Continental Op Mystery - Unabridged book cover

Dashiell Hammett's The Dain Curse - A Continental Op Mystery - Unabridged

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The Complete Dashiell Hammett Short Story Collection - Vol. I - Unabridged book cover

The Complete Dashiell Hammett Short Story Collection - Vol. I - Unabridged

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The Complete Dashiell Hammett Short Story Collection - Vol. II - Unabridged book cover

The Complete Dashiell Hammett Short Story Collection - Vol. II - Unabridged

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The Thin Man book cover

The Thin Man

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The Girl with the Silver Eyes book cover

The Girl with the Silver Eyes

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The House In Turk Street book cover

The House In Turk Street

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Nightmare Town book cover

Nightmare Town

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The Hunter book cover

The Hunter

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Return of the Thin Man book cover

Return of the Thin Man

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The Dain Curse book cover

The Dain Curse

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The Glass Key book cover

The Glass Key

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The Thin Man book cover

The Thin Man

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The Maltese Falcon book cover

The Maltese Falcon

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Red Harvest book cover

Red Harvest

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San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir) book cover

San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir)

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