The critical response to Dashiell Hammett

From The journals of André Gide / André Gide

From The pursuit of crime / Dennis Porter

From Shadow man : the life of Dashiell Hammett / Richard Layman

From Hammett : a life at the edge / William F. Nolan

From "Radical anger : Dashiell Hammett's "Red harvest" / Christopher Bentley

From Adventure, mystery, and romance / John G. Cawelti

Forms of labor in Dashiell Hammett's Red harvest / Carl Freedman and Christopher Kendrick

From Dashiell Hammett : a casebook / William F. Nolan

From California writers / Stoddard Martin

From "The hardboiled dicks" / Donald Westlake

The Dain curse : the epistemology of the detective story / Sinda Gregory

"A long and laughable story" : Hammett's The Dain curse / Bruce Gatenby

From the introduction to The Maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett

From "Why do people read detective stories?" / Edmund Wilson

From Heroes and highbrows and the popular mind / Leo Gurko

From "The Maltese falcon : the emergency of the hero / George J. Thompson

From Saint with a gun / William Ruelman

From Dashiell Hammett / Julian Symons

Focus on The Maltese falcon : the metaphysical falcon / Irving Malin

Jameson, genre, and gumshoes : The Maltese falcon as inverted romance / Jasmine Yong Hall

Dashiell Hammett and the challenge of new individualism : rereading Red harvest and The Maltese falcon / Christopher Metress

From "Oh look - two good books!" / Dorothy Parker

Letter to the editor of Writer's digest / Joseph T. Shaw

On The glass key / Rex Stout

From Mortal consequences / Julian Symons

On The glass key / James M. Cain

From The new wild west : the urban mysteries of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler / Paul Skenazy

From "Setting the record straight on Dashiell Hammett : a life" / William F. Nolan

Riddle of the key / Will Murray

Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled modernism / Jon Thompson

From an advertisement, The New York times / Alfred Knopf

From Shadow man : the life of Dashiell Hammett / Richard Layman

From Private investigations : the novels of Dashiell Hammett / Sinda Gregory

The thin man : the end game / George J. Thompson

From Beams falling : the art of Dashiell Hammett's novels / Peter Wolfe

From Murder for pleasure : the life and times of the detective story / Howard Haycroaft

From "The simple art of murder" / Raymond Chandler

Dashiell Hammett's private eye : no loyalty beyond the job / Davd T. Bazelon

The thin man / A. Alvarez

Poetics of the private eye : the novels of Dashiell Hammett / Robert I. Edenbaum

Dashiell Hammett and the continental op / Steven Marcus

Homage to Dashiell Hammmett / Ross Macdonald

Finding out about gender in Hammett's detective fiction : generic constraints or transcendental norms? / David J. Herman

Dangerous romance as a prelude to love : Hammett's Woman in the dark / Larry Anderson.