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