Hammett
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was an American author of hardboiled crime fiction. He is best known for creating the characters Sam Spade, Nick & Nora Charles and the Continental Op. Before becoming an author, Hammett was a Pinkerton agent, which he drew upon as an author. He said, “all my characters were based on people I’ve known personally, or known about.” Although he died in 1961, his career was over in 1934. He dedicated the remainder of his life to left-wing activism and anti-fascism.

Dashiell Hammett’s first published story was The Gatewood Caper, published in 1923. His first novel was Red Harvest, published in 1929. His final novel, The Thin Man, was published in 1934. All of his novels were originally published in 3-to-5 part serials in pulp magazines. Below is a list of Dashiell Hammett’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Red Harvest(1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dain Curse(1929)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Maltese Falcon(1930)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Glass Key(1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Woman In The Dark(1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Thin Man(1934)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
They Can Only Hang You Once(1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Barber and His Wife (As:Peter Collinson)(1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Road Home (As:Peter Collinson)(1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sardonic Star of Tom Doody (As:Peter Collinson)(1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Vicious Circle (As:Peter Collinson)(1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Arson Plus (As:Peter Collinson)(1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Slippery Fingers (As:Peter Collinson)(1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Laughing Masks / When Luck's Running Good (As:Peter Collinson)(1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Itchy / Itchy the Debonair (As:Peter Collinson)(1924)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hunter(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories(1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Man Called Spade(1944)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hammett Homicides(1946)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dead Yellow Woman(1947)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Creeping Siamese and Other Stories(1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nightmare Town and Other Stories(1950)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Big Knockover(1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Continental Op(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories and Other Writings(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dashiell Hammett: A Retrospective Anthology (With: Jack Adrian)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Vintage Hammett(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lost Stories (With: Joe Gores)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Return of the Thin Man (With: Julie M. Rivett)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hunter and Other Stories(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Continental Op Casebook, Vol. 1(2025)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Crime Wave(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Selected Shorts Books

For Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space)(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Even More Laughs (By: Jonathan Lethem,T.C. Boyle,Philip Roth,Stephen Colbert,Miranda July,Christine Baranski,Alec Baldwin,Robert Sean Leonard,Symphony Space,Jerry Zaks,Julia Slavin,Harry Mathews,Thomas Meehan,Marian Seldes,Parker Posey)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Timeless Classics (By: Shirley Jackson,James Thurber,Raymond Carver,John Shea,Jack London,Edith Wharton,D.H. Lawrence,Richard Connell,Maria Tucci,James Naughton,Charles Keating,Symphony Space,Marian Seldes,Isaiah Sheffer,Steven Gilborn)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Falling in Love (By: E. Nesbit,Padgett Powell,Maile Meloy,Rick Bass,Edna O'Brien,Fionnula Flanagan,Hope Davis,Laurie Colwin,Ted Marcoux,Christina Pickles,Jane Curtin,William Hurt,Symphony Space)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Food Fictions (By: Symphony Space)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Travel Tales (By: Symphony Space)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Edith Wharton (By: Symphony Space)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pets! (By: Symphony Space)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Betrayal (By: John Cheever,Tessa Hadley,John Biguenet,Adam Haslett,Rattawut Lapcharoensap,Symphony Space,Galina Vromen)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Family Matters (By: Symphony Space)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Are We There Yet? (By: Symphony Space)(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Touch of Magic (By: Ray Bradbury,T.C. Boyle,Maria Tucci,James Naughton,Haruki Murakami,Jonathan Safran Foer,Kevin Brockmeier,Donald Barthelme,Stephen Colbert,John Lithgow,Anthony Rapp,Daniel Gerroll,Symphony Space,Andrew Lam,Jerry Zaks)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The William Hurt Collection (By: Richard Ford,Tobias Wolff,Aleksandar Hemon,William Hurt,Ron Carlson,Symphony Space)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Whodunit? (With: Ed McBain,Shirley Jackson,John Shea,Louise Erdrich,Nadine Gordimer,René Auberjonois,Fionnula Flanagan,Robert Sean Leonard,C.S. Montanye,Symphony Space,Isaiah Sheffer,Hattie Winston)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
American Classics (By: Edgar Allan Poe,Joyce Carol Oates,Eudora Welty,John Cheever,Alice Walker,Donald Barthelme,John Sayles,Amy Tan,Symphony Space)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
New American Stories (By: Sherman Alexie,Jhumpa Lahiri,Aleksandar Hemon,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Symphony Space)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Poe! (By: Symphony Space)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Peter Collinson Short Stories/Novellas

(as Peter Collinson)

The Barber and His Wife(1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Road Home(1922)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sardonic Star of Tom Doody(1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Vicious Circle(1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Arson Plus(1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Slippery Fingers(1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Laughing Masks / When Luck's Running Good(1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Itchy / Itchy the Debonair(1924)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

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Notes: The Big Knockover was also published as $106,000 Blood Money. Lost Stories also contains contributions by Vince Emery and Joe Gores. Creeps by Night was also published as Modern Tales of Horror.

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