The American author Dashiell Hammett created the hardboiled school of detective fiction with the enduring characters of Sam Spade Nick and Nora Charles The Thin Man and the Continental Op Now widely regarded as among the greatest mystery stories of world literature his works went on to have a significant impact on the development of crime fiction and filmnoir cinema His 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon is generally considered his finest work introducing Sam Spade the quintessential hardboiled private detective who battles the gangs of organised crime while left cynical by the cycle of violence and corruption in the world around him For the first time in publishing history this eBook presents Hammetts complete published works with numerous illustrations rare texts and informative introductions Version 1 Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hammetts life and works Concise introductions to the novels and other texts All 6 novels with individual contents tables The rare unfinished novel Tulip first time in digital print Images of how the books were first published giving your eReader a taste of the original books and serial publications Excellent formatting of the texts Rare short story collections available in no other collection The complete published Continental Op stories Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories Easily locate the stories you want to read Includes Hammetts rare uncollected stories available in no other collection Raymond Chandlers critical assessment of Hammetts work The Simple Art of Murder Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note the unfinished Sam Spade story A Knife will Cut for Anybody and several other minor tales were only recently published and so cannot appear in this collection due to copyright restrictions When new texts enter the public domain they will be added to the eBook as a free update CONTENTS The Novels Red Harvest 1929 The Dain Curse 1930 The Maltese Falcon 1930 The Glass Key 1931 The Thin Man 1934 Tulip 1966 The Shorter Fiction The Continental Op Series The Adventures of Sam Spade The Thin Man Series Woman in the Dark 1933 Hammett Homicides 1946 Dead Yellow Women 1947 Nightmare Town 1948 The Creeping Siamese 1950 A Man Named Thin 1962 The Big Knockover 1966 Uncollected Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Criticism The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler