picture from:  http://www.lib.umd.edu/RARE/Exhibits/HardBoiled/Hammett.html

Dashiell Hammett wrote just five novels in his life, but they changed the way detective fiction has been written since.  His experience as a detective at Pinkerton Detective Agency served as a basis for his novels and short stories.  He was able to portray realistic characters and language in his work.  The Maltese Falcon one of his earliest works has been made into a movie three times.  He pioneered the Hard-boiled fiction genre, and since then writers of detective fiction have followed his example.  His work gave detective fiction a respectable reputation in the literary world.
Note:  Some of Hammett's work was republished, and his unpublished work was published by Lillian Hellman after his death.

Red Harvest (1929)

The Dain Curse (1929)

The Maltese Falcon (1930)
The Glass Key (1931)
The Thin Man (1932)

"Afraid of a Gun" (1924)
"After the Thin Man" (1936)
"Albert Pastor at Home" (1933)
"Arson Plus" (1923)
"The Assistant Murderer" (1926)
"The Barber and His Wife" (1922)
"The Big Knockover" (1927)
"The Black Hat That Wasn't There" (1923)
"Bodies Piled Up" (1923)
"Corkscrew" (1925)
"The Creeping Siamese" (1926)
"The Crusader" (1923)
"Dead Yellow Women" (1925)
"Death and Company" (1930)
"Death on Pine Street" (1924)
"Diamond Wager" (1929)
"The Dimple" (1923)
"Ester Entertains" (1924)
"The Farewell Murder" (1930)
"The First Aide to Murder" (?)
"The First Thin Man" (1999)
"Fly Paper" (1929)
"The Gatewood Caper" (1929)
"The Girl with the Silver Eyes" (1924)
"The Golden Horseshoe" (1924)
"The Green Elephant" (1923)
"The Gutting of Couffignal" (1925)
"The Hairy One" (1925)
"His Brother's Keeper" (1934)
"Holiday" (1923)
"The House in Turk Street" (1924)
"Immortality" (1922)
"In the Morgue" (1962)
"Itchy the Debonair" (1924)
"The Joke on Eloise Morey" (1923)
"The Judge Laughed Last" (1924)
"Laughing Masks" (1923)
"This Little Pig" (1934)
"The Main Death" (1927)
"A Man Named Thin" (1961)
"A Man Called Spade" (1932)
"The Man Who Killed Dan Odams" (1924)
"The Man Who Loved Ugly Women" (1925)
"The Man Who Stood in the Way" (1951)
"The Nails in Mr. Caterer" (1926)
"Nightmare Town" (1924)
"Nightshade" (1933)
"Night Shots" (1924)
"One Hour" (1924)
"$100,006 Blood Money" (1927)
"On the Way" (1932)
"The Road Home" (1922)
"Ruffian's Wife" (1946)
"The Sardonic Star of Tom Doody" (1923)
"The Scorched Face" (1925)
"The Second-Story Angel" (1923)
"Slippery Fingers" (1923)
"A Tale of Two Women" (?)
"The Tenth Clew" (1924)
"They Can Only Hang You Once" (1932)
"The Thin Man" (1933)
"The Thin Man" (previously unpublished first draft) (1975)
"The King Business" (1928)
"Tom, Dick, or Harry" (1925)
"Too Many Have Lived" (1932)
"Tulip" (1966)
"Two Sharp Knives" (1934)
"The Vicious Circle" (1923)
"Wages of Crime" (1962)
"When Luck's Running Good" (1962)
"Who Killed Bob Teal" (1924)
"The Whosis Kid" (1925)
"Woman in the Dark" (1933)
"Zigzags of Treachery" (1924)

The House on Turk Street (2002)
Bande (1986)

(based on The Glass Key)
The Wizard of Malta (1987)

(based on The Maltese Falcon)
"The Dain Curse" (1978)

(TV series)
"The Thin Man" (1957)

(TV series)
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Secret Agent X-9 (1945)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
The Glass Key (1942)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Another Thin Man (1939)
Secret Agent X-9 (1937)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Satan Met a Lady (1936)

(based on The Maltese Falcon)
The Glass Key (1935)
Mr. Dynamite (1935)
Woman in the Dark (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
The Maltese Falcon (1931)
City Streets (1931)
Roadhouse Nights (1930)

(based on Red Harvest)

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