Dashiell Hammett

Bibliography

Novels

• Red Harvest (1929)
  – Previously published in 4 individual parts:
  • The Cleansing of Poisonville (1927)
  • Crime Wanted – Male or Female (1927)
  • Dynamite (1928)
  • The 19th Murder (1928)
• The Dain Curse (1929)
  – Previously published in 4 individual parts:
  • Black Lives (1928)
  • The Hollow Temple (1928)
  • Black Honeymoon (1929)
  • Black Riddle (1929)
• The Maltese Falcon (1930)
  – Previously published in 5 individual parts, all entitled The Maltese Falcon (1929).
• The Glass Key (1931)
  – Previously published in 4 individual parts:
  • The Glass Key (1930)
  • The Cyclone Shot (1930)
  • Dagger Point (1930)
  • The Shattered Key (1930)
• Woman in the Dark (1933)
  – Originally serialized in "Liberty;" posthumously published in book form in 1989.
• The Thin Man (1934)
  – First draft 1930 (set in San Francisco), first published posthumously in 1975.
• Dashiell Hammett Omnibus (1935)
• The Complete Dashiell Hammett (1942)
• The Dashiell Hammett Omnibus (1950)
• The Novels of Dashiell Hammett (1965)
• Library of America: Dashiell Hammett – Complete Novels (1999)

Short Story Collections

• $106,000 Blood Money (1943)
  • The Big Knockover
  • $106,000 Blood Money
• The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories (1944)
  A/K/A: They Can Only Hang You Once
  • Too Many Have Lived
  • They Can Only Hang You Once
  • A Man Called Spade
  • The Assistant Murder
  • Nightshade
  • The Judge Laughed Last
  • His Brother's Keeper
• The Continental Op (1945)
  • Fly Paper
  • Death on Pine Street
  • Zigzags of Treachery
  • The Farewell Murder
• The Return of the Continental Op (1945)
  • The Whosis Kid
  • The Gutting of Couffignal
  • Death and Company
  • One Hour
  • The Tenth Clew
• Hammett Homicides (1946)
  • The House in Turk Street
  • The Girl with the Silver Eyes
  • Night Shots
  • The Main Death
  • Two Sharp Knives
  • Ruffian's Wife
• Dead Yellow Women (1947)
  • Dead Yellow Women
  • The Golden Horshoe
  • House Dick
  • Who Killed Bob Teal?
  • The Green Elephant
  • The Hairy One
• Nightmare Town (1948)
  – Edited by Ellery Queen.
  • Nightmare Town
  • The Scorched Face
  • Albert Pastor at Home
  • Corkscrew
• The Creeping Siamese (1950)
  – Edited by Ellery Queen.
  • The Creeping Siamese
  • The Man Who Killed Dan Odams
  • The Nails in Mr. Cayterer
  • The Joke on Eloise Morey
  • Tom, Dick or Harry
  • This King Business
• The Woman in the Dark (1951)
  – Edited by Ellery Queen.
  • Arson Plus
    – First published 1923 under the name Peter Collinson.
  • Slippery Fingers
    – First published 1923 under the name Peter Collinson.
  • The Black Hat That Wasn't There
  • Woman in the Dark
  • Afraid of a Gun
  • Holiday
  • The Man Who Stood in the Way
    – First published in 1923 as The Vicious Circle under the name Peter Collinson.
• A Man Named Thin and Other Stories (1962)
  – Edited by Ellery Queen.
  • A Man Named Thin
  • Wages of Crime
  • The Gatewood Caper
  • The Barber and His Wife
    – First published in 1922 under the name Peter Collinson.
  • Itchy the Debonair
  • The Second-Story Angel
  • In the Morgue
  • When Luck's Running Good
• The Big Knockover (1966)
  – Edited by Lillian Hellman.
  • The Gutting of Couffignal
  • Fly Paper
  • The Scorched Face
  • This King Business
  • The Gatewood Caper
  • Dead Yellow Women
  • Corkscrew
  • Tulip
    – Unfinished novel.
  • The Big Knockover
  • $106,000 Blood Money
• The Continental Op (1974)
  – Edited by Steven Marcus.
  • The Tenth Clew
  • The Golden Horseshoe
  • The House in Turk Street
  • The Girl with the Silver Eyes
  • The Whosis Kid
  • The Main Death
  • The Farewell Murder
• Nightmare Town (1999)
  – Edited by Kirby McCauley, Martin H. Greenberg and Ed Gorman.
  • Nightmare Town
  • House Dick
  • Ruffian's Wife
  • The Man Who Killed Dan Odams
  • Night Shots
  • Zigzags of Treachery
  • The Assistant Murderer
  • His Brother's Keeper
  • Two Sharp Knives
  • Death on Pine Street
  • The Second-Story Angel
  • Afraid of a Gun
  • Tom, Dick or Harry
  • One Hour
  • Who Killed Bob Teal?
  • A Man Called Spade
  • Too Many Have Lived
  • They Can Only Hang You Once
  • A Man Named Thin
  • The First Thin Man
• Library of America: Dashiell Hammett – Crime Stories and Other Writings (2001)
  • Arson Plus (1923)
  • The Assistant Murderer (1926)
  • The Big Knockover (1927)
  • The Creeping Siamese (1926)
  • Crooked Souls (1923)
    A/K/A: The Gatewood Caper
  • Dead Yellow Women (1925)
  • The Farewell Murder (1930)
  • Fly Paper (1929)
  • The Girl with Silver Eyes (1924)
  • The Golden Horseshoe (1924)
  • The Gutting of Couffignal (1925)
  • The House in Turk Street (1924)
  • The Main Death (1927)
  • Nightmare Town (1924)
  • The Scorched Face (1925)
  • Slippery Fingers (1923)
  • The Tenth Clew (1924)
  • The Thin Man (first draft, 1930)
  • This King Business (1928)
  • Two Sharp Knives (1934)
  • The Whosis Kid (1925)
  • Woman in the Dark (1933)
  • Women, Politics and Murder (1924)
    A/K/A: Death on Pine Street
  • Zigzags of Treachery (1924)

Anthology Contributions

• Creeps By Night (1931)
  A/K/A Modern Tales of Horror
  – Introduction by Dashiell Hammett.
  – Reprinted and amplified 1961.

Uncollected Short Stories

• The Crusader (1923)
• Ester Entertains (1924)
• The Man Who Loved Ugly Women (1924 or 1925)
• Diamond Wager (1929)
• On the Way (1932)
• This Little Pig1 (1934)
• First Aide to Murder
• A Tale of Two Women

Short Stories Published Under Assumed Names

• Immortality" (10 Story Book, November 1922)
  – As Daghull Hammett.
• The Road Home" (The Black Mask, December 1922)
  – As Peter Collinson.
• The Sardonic Star of Tom Doody (Brief Stories, February 1923)
  A/K/A Wages of Crime
  – As Peter Collinson.
• The Crusader" (The Smart Set, August 1923)
  – As Mary Jane Hammett.
• Diamond Wager" (Detective Fiction Weekly, 19 October 1929)
  – As Samuel Dashiell.

Screenplays

• City Streets (1931)
  – With Oliver H.P. Garrett and Max Marcin.
• Mister Dynamite (1935)
  – With Doris Malloy and Harry Clork.
• After the Thin Man (1936)
  – With Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett.
• Another Thin Man (1939)
  – With Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett.
• Watch on the Rhine (1943)
  – With Lillian Hellman.

Poetry

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

Cartoons

• Secret Agent X-9, Book 1 (1934)
• Secret Agent X-9, Book 2 (1934)

Nonfiction and Correspondence

• The Battle of the Aleutians (1944)
  – With Robert Colodny.
• Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett 1921 – 1960 (2001)
  – Edited by Richard Layman with Julie M. Rivett.