‘Lost Stories’ (2005) gathers Hammett’s hidden gems; plus, it’s a biography
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): In addition to unearthing worthy stories, editor Vince Emery chronicles the author’s life.
Dashiell Hammett
‘Lost Stories’ (2005) gathers Hammett’s hidden gems; plus, it’s a biography
‘Woman in the Dark’ (1933) gets murkier in 1934 film adaptation
Sleuthing Sunday (Book and movie reviews): Hammett’s experiment with blending crime and romance is worth reading, but the film doesn’t rise above a curiosity.
‘Nightmare Town’ (1999) an essential cross-section of Hammett’s work
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): This landmark collection gives us more of the Op, all three Spade shorts and fascinating one-offs.
‘Hunter and Other Stories’ (2013) cleans out Hammett’s files
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Unpublished and under-published tales are rounded up from the author’s archives, but this is for serious fans only.
‘Dain Curse’ (1978), Hammett’s most emotional novel, gets miniseries treatment
Sleuthing Sunday (TV review): Although he doesn’t resemble Hammett’s description, James Coburn makes an appealing screen version of the Continental Op.
A baffling mystery: Why has there never been a Continental Op TV series?
Sleuthing Sunday (TV commentary): One obscure half-hour episode from 1995 features Hammett’s prolific detective, and teases what we could have over the course of a full series.
Hardboiled fiction that goes over easy: ‘Big Book of the Continental Op’ (2017)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Nearly a century after Hammett invented him, all of the Continental Op’s world-spanning adventures are cozily combined into one book.
Last three ‘Thin Man’ movies (1941-47) are the thinnest entries, but worth a look
Sleuthing Sunday (Movie reviews): The saga’s core charms – Nick, Nora and Asta – remain in “Shadow of the Thin Man,” “The Thin Man Goes Home” and “Song of the Thin Man.”
Nick and Nora are stars in ‘After the Thin Man’ (1936), ‘Another Thin Man’ (1939)
Sleuthing Sunday (Movie reviews): Likewise moving up in the world, Dashiell Hammett delivers the screen stories for the first two sequels.
Three-pronged plot of ‘The Dain Curse’ (1929) is worth the effort
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): The Continental Op does meat-and-potatoes work to solve Hammett’s most multi-layered mystery.