Dashiell Hammett
American writer (1894-1961) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 66
Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9.
Dashiell Hammett is read about 961 times a day, in 63 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?People around Dashiell
W. S. Van Dyke Directed The Thin Man and After the Thin Man
Hunt Stromberg Produced The Thin Man and After the Thin Man
Myrna Loy Dashiell wrote The Thin Man (1934)
William Powell Dashiell wrote The Thin Man (1934)- E. Lloyd Sheldon Produced City Streets and The Glass Key
Albert Hackett Also in The Thin Man and After the Thin Man
Frances Goodrich Also in The Thin Man and After the Thin Man
Creighton Hale Dashiell wrote The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Murray Alper Dashiell wrote After the Thin Man (1936)
Bette Davis Dashiell wrote Watch on the Rhine (1943)
Raymond Chandler Influenced by Dashiell
John Huston Directed The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Paul Lukas Also in City Streets and Watch on the Rhine
Hal B. Wallis Produced The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Ross Macdonald Influenced by Dashiell
Jack L. Warner Produced Watch on the Rhine (1943)
Robert B. Parker Influenced by Dashiell
Lawrence Block Influenced by Dashiell
Alan Crosland Directed Mister Dynamite (1935)
Jerome Cowan Dashiell wrote The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hobart Henley Directed Roadhouse Nights (1930)
Roy Del Ruth Directed The Maltese Falcon (1931)
Stuart Heisler Directed The Glass Key (1942)
Tammany Young Also in Roadhouse Nights and The Glass Key
Dashiell HammettPartners
Is this everyone?
Only relatives with a profile here are drawn, so a family can be larger than this. A line here can also be wrong. A marriage is drawn as ended only where its end is recorded, so a spouse drawn here may be a former one.
Correct this familyAlso in Deutsch
Media & music
Photos 7
![Building at 891 Post Street, San Francisco, where Hammett lived while writing The Maltese Falcon: The character Sam Spade may have also lived in the building.[20][21]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Spades_House_891_Post_st_a.JPG/1280px-Spades_House_891_Post_st_a.JPG)
Building at 891 Post Street, San Francisco, where Hammett lived while writing The Maltese Falcon: The character Sam Spade may have also lived in the building.[20][21]
Lillian Hellman in 1935
Photo portrait of Hammett from the cover of his final novel, The Thin Man (1934)
Hammett's grave, in Arlington National Cemetery, (section 12, site 508)
November 1927 issue of Black Mask, featuring "The Cleansing of Poisonville"
March 1930 issue of Black Mask magazine, featuring Hammett's The Glass Key
