Author: Dashiell Hammett

'Dashiell Hammett is an original. He is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' BOSTON GLOBEDashiell Hammett's Contine...

The Hunter Shortlisted for the 2015 CWA Short Story Dagger A new collection of crime stories from the legendary hard-boiled writer Dashiell Hammett...

The last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is a genre-defining mystery novel, publis...

Corruption, murder, beauty and innocence . . . 'Great crime fiction started with Hammett' James Ellroy'Not just the first of the tough school of cr...

'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMESMiss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for...

'When I opened my eyes and sat up in bed Nora was shaking me and a man with a gun in his hand was standing in the bedroom doorway.'Ex-detective Nic...

'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMESDashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction a...

The sometime Pinkerton Detective, the consumptive and the drunk, the pioneer of noir writing, the bleak defier of McCarthy, the jailbird, the write...

THE HUNTER AND OTHER STORIES is a unique literary publication from one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Dashiell Hammett. This volume i...

'An acknowledged literary landmark' [Robert Graves] from 'The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction' [New York Times]The Continental Op first h...