Dashiell Hammett
Profile info
Known forWriting
GenderMale
Birthday27 May 1894
Died10 January 1961 (age 66)
Place of birthSaint Mary's County, Maryland, USA
Known credits30
Biography
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (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 enduring 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 now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time". In his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective ficti…
Monsieur Spade
2024 · Characters
Let Sleeping Guns Lie
2005 · Thanks
No Good Deed
2002 · Novel
Fallen Angels
1993 · Story
The Gang
1986 · Adaptation
The Case of Dashiell Hammett
1982
The Wizard of Malta
1981 · Novel
The Crimson Night of the Hawk
1978 · Novel
The Dain Curse
1978 · Novel
The Black Bird
1975 · Characters
Nick and Nora
1975 · Characters
Studio One
1948 · Writer
Song of the Thin Man
1947 · Characters
Secret Agent X-9
1945 · Characters
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944 · Characters
Watch on the Rhine
1943 · Screenplay
The Glass Key
1942 · Novel
Shadow of the Thin Man
1941 · Characters
The Maltese Falcon
1941 · Novel
Another Thin Man
1939 · Story
Secret Agent X-9
1937 · Characters
After the Thin Man
1936 · Story
Satan Met a Lady
1936 · Novel
The Glass Key
1935 · Novel
Mister Dynamite
1935 · Story
Woman in the Dark
1934 · Short Story
The Thin Man
1934 · Novel
The Maltese Falcon
1931 · Novel
City Streets
1931 · Story
Roadhouse Nights
1930 · Novel
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