Novels

Hammett, Dashiell,
--Red Harvest, 1929. Character: Continental Op
--The Dain Curse, Penguin, Middlesex, 1929. Characters: The Detective, Owen Fitzstephan
--The Maltese Falcon, Penguin, Middlesex, 1930. Characters: Sam Spade, Miles Archer, Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Miss Wonderly)
--The Glass Key, 1931.
--The Thin Man, 1932. Characters: Nick Charles, Nora Charles, Asta
--Woman in the Dark: A Novel of Dangerous Romance, Knopf, New York, 1933. ISBN: 0-394-57269-6 Characters: Brazil, Luise Fischer

Original Short Fiction

Hammett, Dashiell,
--The American Magazine
--Black Mask
--Black Mask (as Peter Collinson)
--Colliers
--Ellery Queen
--Saucy Stories

Collections of Short Fiction

Hammett, Dashiell,
--The Continental Op, Random House, New York, 1930. ISBN: 0-394-48704-4
--The Big Knockover, Vintage, New York, 1966. ISBN: 0-679-73359-9
--The Continental Op, Vintage, New York, 1974. ISBN: 0-679-72258-0
--Nightmare Town, Knopf, New York, 1999. ISBN: 0-375-40111-3

Sources of Biographical and Bibliogaphical Information

Goldstone, Tony (ed.), Chapter 5. Detective and Mystery, in The Pulps, Chelsea House, New York, 1970. ISBN: 394-44186-9

Parker, Robert B., Introduction, in Woman in the Dark: A Novel of Dangerous Romance, Knopf, New York, 1933. ISBN: 0-394-57269-6

Hellman, Lillian, Introduction, in The Big Knockover, Vintage, New York, 1966. ISBN: 0-679-72259-9

Nolan, William F., Introduction, in Nightmare Town, Knopf, New York, 1999. ISBN: 0-375-40111-3

Pierpoint, Claudia Roth,
--Tough Guy, in The New Yorker, February 11, 2002. (article)