Dashiell Hammett Stories [I have all of his novels] NOTE: this neglects stories that later became novels (except "The Thin Man" and "Woman in the Dark") NOTE: a lot of the Ellery Queen/Frederic Dannay stories are edited/expurgated Crime Stories at least goes back to the original pulp stories (TBN, TCO & NT (recent, i.e. post 2000?, versions) I think are also unexpurgated) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell_Hammett http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/biblio/lazy-gink.html http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/hammett.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLLECTIONS BK = The Big Knockover CO = The Continental Op CS = Crime Stories And Other Writings [redundant with other collections] LS = Lost Stories NT = Nightmare Town [LS] "The Barber and his Wife", 1922 [LS] "The Parthian Shot", 1922 [LS] "The Great Lovers", 1922 [LS] "Immortality", 1922 [LS] "The Road Home", 1922 [LS] "The Master Mind", 1923 [LS] "The Sardonic Star of Tom Doody", 1923 [AKA "The Wages Of Crime"] [LS] "The Joke on Eoloise Morey", 1923 [LS] "Holiday", 1923 [LS] "The Crusader", 1923 [LS] "The Green Elephant", 1923 [LS] "The Dimple", 1923 [AKA "In The Morgue"] [LS] "Laughing Masks", 1923 [AKA "When Luck's Running Good"] [LS] "Itchy", 1924 [LS] "Esther Entertains", 1924 [LS] "Another Perfect Crime", 1925 [LS] "Ber-Bulu", 1925 [AKA "The Hairy One"] [LS] "The Advertising Man Writes a Love Letter", 1926-30 [NT] "The House Dick", 1923-6 [AKA "Bodies Piled Up") [NT] "The Second-Story Angel", 1923-6 [NT] "The Man Who Killed Dan Odams", 1923-6 [NT] "Night Shots", 1923-6 [NT] "Afraid of a Gun", 1923-6 [NT, CS] "Zigzags of Treachery", 1923-6 [NT] "One Hour", 1923-6 [NT, CS] "Death on Pine Street", 1923-6 [AKA "Women, Politics and Murder"] [NT] "Tom, Dick, or Harry", 1923-6 [AKA "Mike, Alec or Rufus?"] [NT, CS] "The Assistant Murderer", 1923-6 [AKA "First Aide to Murder"? see UNFOUND] [BK, CS] "The Gatewood Caper", 1923 [AKA "Crooked Souls] [NT, CS] "Nightmare Town", 1924 [CO, CS] "The Tenth Clew", 1924 [CO, CS] "The House in Turk Street", 1924 [CO, CS] "The Girl with the Silver Eyes", 1924 [BK, CS] "Dead Yellow Women", 1925 [BK, CS] "The Gutting of Couffignal", 1925 [BK, CS] "The Scorched Face", 1925 [BK] "Corkscrew", 1925 [CO, CS] "The Whosis Kid", 1925 [NT] "Ruffian's Wife", 1925 [CO, CS] "The Main Death", 1927 [BK, CS] "The Big Knockover", 1927 [BK] "$106,000 Blood Money", 1927 [BK, CS] "This King Business", 1928 [BK, CS] "Fly Paper", 1929 [CO, CS] "The Farewell Murder", 1930 [NT] "A Man Called Spade", 1932 [NT] "Too Many Have Lived", 1932 [NT] "They Can Only Hang You Once", 1932 [NT, CS] "Two Sharp Knives", 1934 [NT] "His Brother's Keeper", 1934 [LS] "Night Shade", c.1933 [LS] "This Little Pig", c.1934 [NT] "A Man Called Thin", 1961 [NT] "The First Thin Man", n.d. [is this the same as in CS?] [BK] "Tulip" [unfinished novel] [CO, CS] "The Golden Horseshoe" [LS] "The Thin Man And The Flack", 1941 [probably not Hammett] [NT] "Who Killed Bob Teal?" [CS] "Arson Plus" (1923) [CS] "Slippery Fingers" (1923) [CS] "The Creeping Siamese" (1926) [CS] "The Thin Man" [first draft, written 1930] [is this the same as in NT?] [CS] "Woman in the Dark" (1933) [later published as standalone; exact same version?] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MISCELLANY "The New Racket" [AKA "The Judge Laughed Last"] (1924) - Hammett, Dashiell. The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories. Edited by Ellery Queen. Spivak, 1944. "Death and Company" (1930) - Hammett, Dashiell. The Return of the Continental Op. Edited by Ellery Queen. Spivak, 1945. "Albert Pastor at Home" (1933) - Hammett, Dashiell. Nightmare Town. Edited by Ellery Queen. Spivak/Mercury Mystery, 1948. "The Nails in Mr. Cayterer" (1926) - Hammett, Dashiell. The Creeping Siamese. Edited by Ellery Queen. Spivak, 1950. "It" [AKA "The Black Hat That Wasn't There"] (1923) "The Vicious Circle" [AKA "The Man Who Stood In the Way"] (1923) - Hammett, Dashiell. The Woman In the Dark. Edited by Ellery Queen. Spivak, 1951. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNCOLLECTED [In 2011, magazine editor Andrew Gulli found fifteen previously unknown short stories by Dashiell Hammett in the archives of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin. Some/all were published in Gulli's "The Strand Magazine" (http://strandmag.com/).] "So, I Shot Him" (published in The Strand Magazine #33) [14 others] (awaiting a possible book*) *(the book is most likely "The Hunter And Other Stories", but this story isn't in that book) STILL UNFOUND "The Man Who Loved Ugly Women" (Experience, probably pre-May 1925) "A Tale of Two Women" (Saturday Home Magazine, ?) "First Aide to Murder" (Saturday Home Magazine, ?) [is this or is it NOT AKA "The Assistant Murderer"?] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNKNOWN "The Glass That Laughed" (True Police Stories, November 1925) "A Man Named Thin" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1961) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MISC [HAVE] Return of the Thin Man (Mysterious Press 2012) - screen treatments for After the Thin Man and Another Thin Man - edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett [HAVE] The Hunter and Other Stories (Mysterious Press 2013) - includes sections... - Crime: "The Hunter", "Sign of the Potent Pills", "The Diamond Wager", "Action and the Quiz Kid" - Men: "An Inch and a Half of Glory", "Nelson Redline", "The Cure", "Faith", "Fragments of Justice", "A Throne for the Worm", "Monk and Johnny Fox", "Magic" - Men & Women: "The Lovely Strangers", "The Breach Born", "On the Way", "Seven Pages", "Week-End" - Screen Stories: "On the Make", "The Kiss-Off", "Devil's Playground" - Appendix: "A Knife Will Cut for Anybody", an unfinished story - note: the eBook version includes unfinished fragments: "The Secret Emperor", "My Brother Felix" - edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett --------------------------------------------------------------------------------