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Author Description Also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett<br /><br /><b>Dashiell Hammett</b>, an American, wrote highly acclaimed detective fiction, including <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29999.The_Maltese_Falcon" title="The Maltese Falcon" rel="nofollow noopener">The Maltese Falcon</a> </i> (1930) and <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80616.The_Thin_Man" title="The Thin Man" rel="nofollow noopener">The Thin Man</a> </i> (1934).<br /><br />Samuel Dashiell Hammett authored hardboiled novels and short stories. He created Sam Spade (<i>The Maltese Falcon</i>), Nick and Nora Charles (<i>The Thin Man</i>), and the Continental Op (<i>Red Harvest and The Dain Curse</i>) among the enduring characters. In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in the New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction."<br /><br />See <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell_Hammett">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell...</a><br />

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