RARA-AVIS: Bibliographies: Dashiell Hammett

Thanks to Eddie Duggan and Jiro Kimura for their help. See also The Lazy Gink's Guide to a Complete Hammett Collection for the easiest way to get your hands on all the stories.

Books

• Red Harvest (Knopf, 1929) (Op)
• The Dain Curse (Knopf, 1929) (Op)
• The Maltese Falcon (Knopf, 1930)
• The Glass Key (Knopf, 1931)
• Creeps By Night (a.k.a. Modern Tales of Horror) (editor) (Day, 1931)
  • "Introduction" - Dashiell Hammett
  • "A Rose for Emily" - William Faulkner
  • "Green Thoughts" - John Collier
  • "The Ghost of Alexander Perks, A.B." - Robert Dean Frisbie
  • "The House" - Andre Maurois
  • "The Kill" - Peter Fleming
  • "Ten O'Clock" - Philip MacDonald
  • "The Spider" - Hanns Heinz Ewers
  • "Breakdown" - L.A.G. Strong
  • "The Witch's Vengeance" - W.B. Seabrook
  • "The Rat" - S. Fowler Wright
  • "Faith, Hope and Charity" - Irvin S. Cobb
  • "Mr. Arcularis" - Conrad Aiken
  • "The Music of Erich Zann" - H.P. Lovecraft
  • "The Strange Case of Mrs. Arkwright" - Harold Dearden
  • "The King of the Cats" - Stephen Vincent Benet
  • "The Red Brain" - Donald Wandrei
  • "The Phantom Bus" - W. Elwyn Backus
  • "Beyond the Door" - Paul Suter
  • "Perchance to Dream" - Michael Joyce
  • "A Visitor from Egypt" - Frank Belknap Long
• The Thin Man (Knopf, 1934)
• Secret Agent X-9, Book 1 (McKay, 1934) (comic strip)
• Secret Agent X-9, Book 2 (McKay, 1934) (comic strip)
• Dashiell Hammett Omnibus (Knopf, 1935)
  • Red Harvest
  • The Dain Curse
  • The Maltese Falcon
• $106,000 Blood Money (Spivak, 1943)
  • "The Big Knockover"
  • "$106,000 Blood Money"
• The Battle of the Aleutians (with Robert Colodny) (Intelligence Section, Field Force Headquarters, Adak, Alaska, 1944)
• The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories (Spivak, 1944) (reprinted as They Can Only Hang You Once, 1949)
  • "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 (Spivak, 1945)
  • "Fly Paper"
  • "Death on Pine Street"
  • "Zigzags of Treachery"
  • "The Farewell Murder"
• The Return of the Continental Op (Spivak, 1945)
  • "The Whosis Kid"
  • "The Gutting of Couffignal"
  • "Death and Company"
  • "One Hour"
  • "The Tenth Clew"
• Hammett Homicides (Spivak, 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 (Spivak, 1947)
  • "Dead Yellow Women"
  • "The Golden Horshoe"
  • "House Dick"
  • "Who Killed Bob Teal?"
  • "The Green Elephant"
  • "The Hairy One"
• Nightmare Town (edited by Ellery Queen) (Spivak/Mercury Mystery, 1948)
  • "Nightmare Town"
  • "The Scorched Face"
  • "Albert Pastor at Home"
  • "Corkscrew"
• The Creeping Siamese (edited by Ellery Queen) (Spivak, 1950)
  • "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 Dashiell Hammett Omnibus (Cassell, 1950)
  • Red Harvest
  • "Dead Yellow Women"
  • The Dain Curse
  • "The Golden Horseshoe"
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • "House Dick"
  • The Glass Key
  • "Who Killed Bob Teal?"
  • The Thin Man
• The Woman in the Dark (edited by Ellery Queen) (Spivak, 1951)
  • "Arson Plus"
  • "Slippery Fingers"
  • "The Black Hat That Wasn't There"
  • "Woman in the Dark"
  • "Afraid of a Gun"
  • "Holiday"
  • "The Man Who Stood in the Way"
• Creeps by Night (editor) (Belmont, 1961) (Reprint of 1931 edition, with introduction and stories by Faulkner, Maurois, Ewers, Seabrook, Aiken, Dearden, Benet, Suter, Joyce and Long)
• A Man Named Thin and Other Stories (edited by Ellery Queen) (Ferman, 1962)
  • "A Man Named Thin"
  • "Wages of Crime"
  • "The Gatewood Caper"
  • "The Barber and His Wife"
  • "Itchy the Debonair"
  • "The Second-Story Angel"
  • "In the Morgue"
  • "When Luck's Running Good"
• The Novels of Dashiell Hammett (Knopf, 1965)
  • Red Harvest
  • The Dain Curse
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • The Glass Key
  • The Thin Man
• The Big Knockover (edited by Lillian Hellman) (Random House, 1966)
  • "The Gutting of Couffignal"
  • "Fly Paper"
  • "The Scorched Face"
  • "This King Business"
  • "The Gatewood Caper"
  • "Dead Yellow Women"
  • "Corkscrew"
  • "Tulip"
  • "The Big Knockover"
  • "$106,000 Blood Money"
• The Continental Op (edited by Steven Marcus) (Random House, 1974)
  • "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"
• Woman in the Dark (Random House, 1989; serialized in Liberty, 8, 15, 22 April 1933)
• Nightmare Town (edited by Kirby McCauley, Martin H. Greenberg and Ed Gorman) (Knopf, 1999)
  • "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"

Short Fiction

"(Op)" indicates a Continental Op story.

• "The Parthian Shot" (The Smart Set, October 1922) (Full text in The Lazy Gink's Guide to a Complete Hammett Collection)
• "Immortality" (10 Story Book, November 1922) (as Daghull Hammett) (Full text in The Lazy Gink's Guide to a Complete Hammett Collection)
• "The Barber and His Wife" (Brief Stories, December 1922) (as Peter Collinson)
• "The Road Home" (The Black Mask, December 1922) (as Peter Collinson)
• "The Sardonic Star of Tom Doody" (a.k.a "Wages of Crime") (Brief Stories, February 1923) (as Peter Collinson)
• "The Joke on Eloise Morey" (Brief Stories 8, No. 4, June 1923)
• "The Vicious Circle" (a.k.a "The Man Who Stood In the Way"?) (The Black Mask, 15 June 1923) (as Peter Collinson)
• "Holiday" (The New Pearsons, July 1923)
• "The Crusader" (The Smart Set, August 1923) (as Mary Jane Hammett)
• "The Green Elephant" (The Smart Set, October 1923)
• "Arson Plus" (The Black Mask, 1 October 1923) (as Peter Collinson) (Op)
• "Crooked Souls" (a.k.a. "The Gatewood Caper") (The Black Mask (15 October 1923) (Op)
• "The Dimple" (a.k.a "In the Morgue") (Saucy Stories, 15 October 1923)
• "Slippery Fingers" (The Black Mask 15 October 1923) (as Peter Collinson) (Op)
• "Laughing Masks" (a.k.a "When Luck's Running Good") (Action Stories, November 1923)
• "It" (a.k.a. "The Black Hat That Wasn't There") (The Black Mask, 1 November 1923) (Op)
• "The Second-Story Angel" (The Black Mask, 15 November 1923)
• "Bodies Piled Up" (a.k.a. "House Dick") (The Black Mask, 1 December 1923)
• "Itchy" (Brief Stories, January 1924)
• "The Tenth Clew" (The Black Mask, 1 January 1924) (Op)
• "The Man Who Killed Dan Odams" (The Black Mask, 15 January 1924)
• "Ester Entertains" (Brief Stories, February 1924)
• "Night Shots" (The Black Mask, February 1924) (Op)
• "The New Racket" (a.k.a. "The Judge Laughed Last") (The Black Mask, 15 February 1924)
• "Afraid of a Gun" (The Black Mask, March 1924)
• "Zigzags of Treachery" (The Black Mask, 1 March 1924) (Op)
• "One Hour" (The Black Mask, April 1924) (Op)
• "The House in Turk Street" (The Black Mask, 15 April 1924) (Op)
• "The Girl with Silver Eyes" (The Black Mask, June 1924) (Op)
• "Women, Politics and Murder" (a.k.a. "Death on Pine Street") (The Black Mask, September 1924) (Op)
• "The Golden Horseshoe" (The Black Mask, November 1924) (Op)
• "Who Killed Bob Teal?" (True Detective Stories, November, 1924) (Op)
• "Nightmare Town" (Argosy All-Story Weekly, December 27, 1924)
• "Mike, Alec or Rufus?" (a.k.a. "Tom, Dick or Harry") (The Black Mask, January 1925) (Op)
• "Ber-Bulu" (a.k.a. "The Hairy One") (Sunset Magazine, March 1925)
• "The Whosis Kid" (The Black Mask, March 1925) (Op)
• "The Scorched Face" (The Black Mask, May 1925) (Op)
• "Corkscrew" (The Black Mask, September 1925) (Op)
• "Ruffian's Wife" (Sunset Magazine, October 1925)
• "Dead Yellow Women" (The Black Mask, November 1925) (Op)
• "The Gutting of Couffignal" (The Black Mask, December 1925) (Op)
• "The Nails in Mr. Cayterer" (The Black Mask, January 1926)
• "The Assistant Murderer" (a.k.a. "First Aide to Murder") (The Black Mask, February 1926)
• "The Creeping Siamese" (The Black Mask, March 1926) (Op)
• "The Big Knockover" (Black Mask, February 1927) (Op)
• "The Advertising Man Writes a Love Letter" (Judge, 26 February 1927)
• "$106,000 Blood Money" (Black Mask, May 1927) (Op)
• "The Main Death" (Black Mask, June 1927) (Op)
• "The Cleansing of Poisonville" (Black Mask, November 1927) (Part one of what will be Red Harvest) (Op)
• "Crime Wanted - Male or Female" (Black Mask, December 1927) (Part two of what will be Red Harvest) (Op)
• "Dynamite" (Black Mask, January 1928) (Part three of what will be Red Harvest) (Op)
• "This King Business" (Mystery Stories, January 1928)
• "The 19th Murder" (Black Mask, February 1928) (Part four of what will be Red Harvest) (Op)
• "Black Lives" (Black Mask, November 1928) (Part one of what will be The Dain Curse) (Op)
• "The Hollow Temple" (Black Mask, December 1928) (Part two of what will be The Dain Curse) (Op)
• "Black Honeymoon" (Black Mask, January 1929) (Part three of what will be The Dain Curse) (Op)
• "Black Riddle" (Black Mask, February 1929) (Part four of what will be The Dain Curse) (Op)
• "Fly Paper" (Black Mask, August 1929) (Op)
• "The Maltese Falcon" (Black Mask, September 1929) (Part one of The Maltese Falcon; made the cover, with an illustration by Henry C. Murphy, Jr.)
• "The Maltese Falcon" (Black Mask, October 1929) (Part two of The Maltese Falcon)
• "Diamond Wager" (Detective Fiction Weekly, 19 October 1929) (as Samuel Dashiell)
• "The Maltese Falcon" (Black Mask, November 1929) (Part three of The Maltese Falcon)
• "The Maltese Falcon" (Black Mask, December 1929) (Part four of The Maltese Falcon)
• "The Maltese Falcon" (Black Mask, January 1930) (Part five of The Maltese Falcon)
• "The Farewell Murder" (Black Mask, February 1930) (Op)
• "The Glass Key" (Black Mask, March 1930) (Part one of The Glass Key)
• "The Cyclone Shot" (Black Mask, April 1930) (Part two of The Glass Key)
• "Dagger Point" (Black Mask, May 1930) (Part three of The Glass Key)
• "The Shattered Key" (Black Mask, June 1930) (Part four of The Glass Key)
• "Death and Company" (Black Mask, November 1930) (Op)
• "On the Way" (Harper's Bazaar, March 1932)
• "A Man Called Spade" (American Magazine, July 1932)
• "Too Many Have Lived" (American Magazine, October 1932)
• "They Can Only Hang You Once (Collier's, November 1932)
• "Woman in the Dark" (Liberty, 8, 15, 22 April 1933)
• "Night Shade" (Mystery League Magazine, October 1, 1933)
• "Albert Pastor at Home" (Esquire, Autumn 1933)
• "The Thin Man" (Redbook, December 1933)
• "Two Sharp Knives" (Collier's, 13 January 1934)
• "His Brother's Keeper" (Collier's, 17 February 1934)
• "This Little Pig" (Collier's, 24 March 1934)
• "A Man Named Thin" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1961)
• "Tulip" (unfinished novel, collected in The Big Knockover)
• "The Thin Man" (City of San Francisco, 4 November 1975) (previously unpublished first draft, set in San Francisco)
• "The Man Who Loved Ugly Women" (Experience, ? - pre May 1925)
• "Another Perfect Crime" (Experience, ? - pre May 1925)
• "A Tale of Two Women" (Saturday Home Magazine, ?)

Short Nonfiction

As well, Hammett did a number of reviews for The Saturday Review of Literature from 1927-1929 and for the New York Evening Post in 1930.

• "The Great Lovers" (The Smart Set, November 1922)
• "The Master Mind" (The Smart Set, January 1923)
• "From the Memoirs of a Private Detective" (The Smart Set, March 1923)
• "In Defence of the Sex Story" (The Writer's Digest, June 1924)
• "Mr. Hergesheimer's Scenario" (The Forum, November 1924)
• "Vamping Sampson" (The Editor, May 1925)
• "Genius Made Easy" (The Forum, August 1925)
• "The Advertisement IS Literature" (Western Advertising, October 1926)
• "The Cabell Epitome" (The Forum, January 1927)
• "Poor Scotland Yard!" (The Saturday Review of Literature, 15 January 1927)
• "Advertising Art Isn't ART - It's Literature" (Western Advertising, December 1927)
• "Have You Tried Meiosis?" (Western Advertising, January 1928)
• "The Literature of Advertising - 1927" (Western Advertising, February 1928)
• "The Editor Knows His Audience" (Western Advertising, March 1928)

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)

Screenplays

• City Streets (1931) (original story)
• Mister Dynamite (1935) (original story)
• After the Thin Man (1936) (original story)
• Another Thin Man (1939) (original story)
• Watch on the Rhine (1943)

Adaptations

• Roadhouse Nights (1930, from Red Harvest)
• The Maltese Falcon (1931)
• The Thin Man (1934)
• Woman in the Dark (1934)
• The Glass Key (1935)
• Satan Met a Lady (1936) (from The Maltese Falcon)
• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• The Glass Key (1942)
• Yojimbo (1961) (from Red Harvest)
• A Fistful of Dollars (1964) (from Red Harvest)
• The Dain Curse (1978) (TV)
• Miller's Crossing (1990) (from The Glass Key, but not acknowledged)
• Last Man Standing (1996) (from Red Harvest)

Movies About Hammett

• Julia (1977) (from a "memoir" by Lillian Hellman)
• Hammett (1983) (fictional story starring Hammett, from Joe Gores' novel)

References

• Deloux, Jean-Pierre. Dashiell Hammett, Underworld USA (Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1994) (French)
• Herron, Don. The Dashiell Hammett Tour: A Guidebook (San Francisco: City Lights, 1991) (revised edition)
• Johnson, Diane. Dashiell Hammett: A Life (New York: Random House, 1983)
• Kettunen, Keijo, editor. Varjomiehen jäljillä: Dashiell Hammett 100 vuotta. Suomen Dekkariseura, 1994.
• Layman, Richard. Dashiell Hammett: A Descriptive Bibliography (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979)
• Layman, Richard. Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981)
• Layman, Richard, with Julie M. Rivett. Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960 (Counterpoint, 2001).
• Luhr, William. The Maltese Falcon: John Huston, director (Rutger University Press, 1995)
• Mellen, Joan. Hellman and Hammett: The Legendary Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett (New York: Harper Collins, 1996)
• Nolan, William F. "Shadowing the Continental Op" (Armchair Detective No. 8, 1974)
• Symons, Julian. Dashiell Hammett (Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985)
• Wolfe, Peter. Beams Falling: The Art of Dashiell Hammett

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