Dashiell Hammett

‘Lost Stories’ (2005) gathers Hammett’s hidden gems; plus, it’s a biography

Editor Vince Emery provides an archeological service as well as a literary one with “Lost Stories” (2005). He started by tracking down every under-published story

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‘Woman in the Dark’ (1933) gets murkier in 1934 film adaptation

Watching “Woman in the Dark” (1934), it’s apparent why – other than classics like “The Maltese Falcon” (1941) and the “Thin Man” series – Dashiell

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‘Nightmare Town’ (1999) an essential cross-section of Hammett’s work

In stark contrast to Doyle’s “Holmes” stories, and to a greater degree than Christie’s shorts, Dashiell Hammett’s short stories have had a checkered publication history.

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‘Hunter and Other Stories’ (2013) cleans out Hammett’s files

The last scraps of Dashiell Hammett’s writings were published in “The Hunter and Other Stories” (2013). It includes 15 never-before-published stories, including three screen treatments

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‘Dain Curse’ (1978), Hammett’s most emotional novel, gets miniseries treatment

Of Dashiell Hammett’s five novels, four inspired an outburst of films: three versions of “The Maltese Falcon,” two versions of “The Glass Key,” six “Thin

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A baffling mystery: Why has there never been a Continental Op TV series?

One of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the history of mystery TV is: Why has there never been a Continental Op TV series? The unnamed

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Hardboiled fiction that goes over easy: ‘Big Book of the Continental Op’ (2017)  

In collecting all of Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op stories (1923-30), “The Big Book of the Continental Op” (2017) brings a reader back to the excitement

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Last three ‘Thin Man’ movies (1941-47) are the thinnest entries, but worth a look

The “Thin Man” saga survives its transition away from the original trilogy’s writers (Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, working from stories by Dashiell Hammett) reasonably

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Nick and Nora are stars in ‘After the Thin Man’ (1936), ‘Another Thin Man’ (1939)

With his novel “The Thin Man” (1934), Dashiell Hammett switched protagonists from workaholic, down-and-dirty sleuths to a detective who retired at a young age and

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Three-pronged plot of ‘The Dain Curse’ (1929) is worth the effort

Dashiell Hammett’s five novels suggest that his writing career went in reverse. He did two experimental novels first – the almost stream-of-consciousness plotting of “Red

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