Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) is one of the most popular American writers, a classic of the detective genre, the creator of a literary movement later c...

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) is one of the most popular American writers, a classic of the detective genre, the creator of a literary movement later c...

“The Glass Key” by D. Hammett, “The Chicago Version” by F. Nibel and C. Bailey, “A Case of Necessity” by M. Crichton represent a real collection of foreign d...

Pulp fiction has been looked down on as a guilty pleasure, but it offers the perfect form of entertainment: the very best storytelling filled with action,...

The Continental Op made his debut in an October 1923 issue of Black Mask, making him one of the earliest hard-boiled private detective characters to appea...

A collection of some of the finest stories from Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon.

The collection includes literary works and memoirs of the most famous representatives of the “detective” genre from Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie to Boilea...

Dashiell Hammett, the bestselling creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, was one of America’s most influential and entertaining autho...

A story from the collection “How to Write a Detective Story.”

There are professions, in comprehending the secrets of which you retain less and less human properties in yourself. These are sailors, jewelers and bankers. ...

In the house of Max Bliss, where Samuel Spade arrived following a phone call from Max, the detective was met by criminal police officers who had already begu...

Creed goes beyond your run-of-the-mill literary work to provide an unbiased portrayal of hobo life during the Great Depression. The living conditions of the ...