Introduction Publications by Dashiell Hammett Chronology HAMMETT'S DETECTIVE DAYS Biographical Overview    Richard Layman, "Dashiell Hammett, 1894-1930"    Dashiell Hammett, biographical statement, Black Mask, November 1924 Working as a Detective    James D. Horan, "Pinkerton's in the Twentieth Century," The Pinkertons: The         Detective Dynasty That Made History (1967)    James Mackay, "When a Man's Partner Is Killed, He's Supposed to Do         Something about It," Allen Pinkerton: The First Private Eye (1963)    Hans Gross, "The Investigating Officer," Criminal Investigation: A Practical         Handbook (1924)          General Considerations          The Duties of the Investigating Officer          The Procedure of the Investigating Officer          On Pathological Lying/Examination of Witnesses and Accused          Preconceived Theories          Certain Qualities Essential to an Investigating Officer          Knowledge of Men          "Orientation" - Finding His Bearings          Jurymen          The "Expeditious" Investigating Officer          Accuracy and Precision in Details    Thomas S. Duke, "The Murder of George Hill for a Worthless Cluster         of Imitation Diamonds," Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (1910)    David Fechheimer, "We Never Sleep," City of San Francisco, 4 November 1975 Hammett's Cases    The Schaefer Jewel Robbery         "Hammett Traps Gem Holdup Suspects," San Francisco Call-Bulletin, 26 January 1934    Sonoma Gold Robbery          "$125,000 in Gold Coin Stolen on S. F. Liner," San Francisco Examiner,                 23 November 1921.          "Dream Bares Hiding Place on S. F. Liner," San Francisco Examiner, 29                 November 1921          Glynn Petrie, "The Looting of the Sonoma," The Californians,                 November-December 1985 Hammett, "From the Memoirs of a Private Detective," The Smart Set, March 1923 Hammett, "Seven Pages" James H. S. Moynahan, "Dashiell Hammett Confesses!" Hammett's Twenty-Four Commandments, "The Crime Wave," New York Evening     Post, 7 June and 3 July 1930 San Francisco Years    Jo Hammett, "Remembering Father," Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers (2001)    Hammett, "Diamond Dress," Samuels Jewelers advertisement    Elizabeth Sanderson, "Ex-Detective Hammett," The Bookman, January-February 1933 THE PULPS AND THE MAKING OF THE NOVEL Black Mask    William F. Nolan, "History of a Pulp: The Life and Times of Black Mask," The         Black Mask Boys: Masters in the Hard-Boiled School of Detective Fiction (1985)    Joseph T. Shaw, "As I Was Saying," Black Mask, January 1927   Shaw, "As I Was Saying," Black Mask, February 1927    Shaw, letter to Hammett, 22 July 1927    Shaw, editorial statement, Black Mask, October 1927    Shaw, Introduction to The Hard-Boiled Omnibus: Early Stories from Black Mask (1946)    Milton Shaw, "Dashiell Hammett: One of the Early Masketeers"    Lester Dent, letter to Philip Durham, 27 October 1958 From Shaw's Scrapbook    Shaw, letter, Writer's Digest, October 1930    "Among the New Books," article on Shaw developing writers, circa 1931    Clipping from the El Paso Times, 24 May 1931    "The New School of Mystery Writing," El Paso Times, 31 May 1931   "An Editor Unburdens Himself Somewhat," El Paso Times, 13 September 1931    Ed Bodin, "An Interview with Joseph T. Shaw," The Author and Composer, August 1932 On Contemporary Detective Fiction    Hammett, "Poor Scotland Yard!" The Saturday Review of Literature, 15 January 1927    Hammett, "Current Murders," The Saturday Review of Literature, 21 May 1927    Hammett, Review of Reminiscences of an Ex-Detective, The Saturday Review         of Literature, 10 December 1927    Hammett, Review of Mysteries of the Missing, The Saturday Review of         Literature, 11 February 1928    Hammett, Review of Great Detectives and Their Methods, Saturday Review of         Literature, 21 April 1928    Henry Seidel Canby, "Throw Out the Detective," The Saturday Review of         Literature, 1 December 1928 Hammett, "The Crime Wave;" excerpts of reviews for the New York Evening Post    Review of Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Door, 5 April 1930    Review of Philip MacDonald's The Noose, 12 April 1930    Review of Kay Cleaver Strahan's Death Traps, 26 April 1930    Review of Edgar Wallace's The Hand of Power, 3 July 1930    Review of Basil King's the Break of Day, 19 July 1930    Review of Paul Selver's Private Life, 20 September 1930    Review of Earl Derr Biggers' Charlie Chan Carries On, 11 October 1930 Writing for the Pulps: Excerpts from the Stories Characters    Hammett, Introduction to the Modern Library edition (1934)    Joel Cairo          Hammett, "The Main Death," Black Mask, June 1927    Brigid O'Shaughnessy            Hammett, inscription in Red Harvest to Peggy O'Toole    Casper Gutman            Hammett, character descriptions from unfinished novel The Secret Emperor            Hammett, Mr.s Gungen's Reading from "The Main Death"            Hammett, "Ruffian's Wife," Sunset Magazine, October 1925 Scenes     "Bad Business"            Hammett, excerpt from "Who Killed Bob Teal?" True Detective Mysteries,                 November 1924, and an excerpt from The Maltese Falcon     "You know I'm not all bad, don't you?"            Hammett, excerpt from "The Whosis Kid," The Black Mask, March 1925, and                 an excerpt from The Maltese Falcon            Shaw, "Not Guilty," Black Mask            Jo Hammett, "Father Tells the Flitcraft Story," Dashiell Hammett:                 A Daughter Remembers            Hammett, "The Boundaries of Science and Philosophy"     "But I've got the falcon"            Hammett, excerpt from "The House on Turk Street," The Black Mask, April                 1924, and an excerpt from The Maltese Falcon            Hammett, A Dislike for Murder     "You needed another protector"            Hammett, excerpt from "Who Killed Bob Teal?" and an excerpt from                 The Maltese Falcon     "I won't play the sap for you"            Hammett, excerpt from "The Girl with the Silver Eyes," the Black Mask, June 1924            Hammett, excerpt from "The Gutting of Couffignal," The Black Mask,                 December 1925, and an excerpt from The Maltese Falcon Sam Spade's San Francisco    Joe Gores, "A Foggy Night," City of San Francisco, 4 November 1975    Mike Humbert, "A Location Guide to Places in The Maltese Falcon" History and the Falcon    Joseph Attard, "In Palestine, Cyprus, and Rhodes," The Knights of Malta (1992)    Hammett, Gutman Begins    Attard, "The Knights in Malta," The Knights of Malta    Pawlu Mizzi, "Philippe Villiers de l'Isle-Adam," The Grand Masters of Malta    Hammett, The Tribute    Hammett, A Pirate's Booty    Lady Frances Verney, "The Half Brothers, Sir Francis and Sir Edmund Verney,"         Memoirs of the Verney Family During the Civil War (1892) MAGAZINE AND BOOK PUBLICATION Contract for Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, and The Maltese Falcon The Editing of the Novel    Hammett, letter to Harry Block, 16 June 1929    Hammett, letter to Block, 14 July 1929    A Matter of Pronunciation: Knopf, Inc., and the Title            Block, letter to Hammett, 6 August 1929            Alfred A. Knopf, letter to Hammett, 16 June 1931    Hammett, letter to block, 31 August 1929 From Black Mask to Book    Black Mask pages from September 1929 installment compared to pages 1-8 of the novel    Black Mask pages from October 1929 installment compared to pages 72-80 of the novel    Black Mask pages from January 1930 installment compared to pages 258-265 of the novel Dust Jackets of Early Printings The Contemporary Response    Elrick B. Davis, "New Hammett Book So Good It Stumps Critic: 'The Maltese         Falcon' Is Best Detective Story by Leader in Thriller Field," Cleveland         Press, 1 February 1930    Davis, "Mystery Yarns Assume More Literary Trend," Cleveland Press, 6 March 1930    "Mr. Hammett's Six-Foot Sam (Author of 'Red Harvest' Again Turns Out Mystery         Tale That Is Literature), Detroit News    "Taken for a Yokel," Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 February 1930    Bruce Barton, letter to Hammett, 3 March 1930    Herbert Asbury, letter to Hammett, 3 February 1930    Dorothy Parker, letter to Hammett, undated    Hammett, A First Best Effort (letter to Asbury, 6 February 1930)    Scott Cunningham, letter to Hammett, 13 February 1930    Imogene Stanley, letter to Hammett, undated    Norman W. C. MacDonald, letter to Hammet, 3 March 1930    Will Cuppy, review of The Maltese Falcon, New York Herald Tribune         Books, 23 February 1930    Review of The Maltese Falcon, The New York Times, 23 February 1930    Ted Shane, "Judging the Books," Judge, 1 March 1930    Some Mysteries and Grim Tales of Unusual Murders, News (Chattanooga,         Tennessee), 1 March 1930.    Donald Douglas, "Not One Hoot for the Law," The New Republic, 9 April 1930    A Knockout Detective, News, (Oklahoma City), 7 March 1930    Eugene Cunningham, "The Art and Success of Dashiell Hammett," El Paso         Times, 9 March 1930    Frederick Nebel, "The Maltese Falcon," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 21 March 1930    Hammett, letter to his wife, undated    Elmer Roessner, "Why Give Crook an Even Break?" New York Telegram, 4 April 1930    Review of the Maltese Falcon, The Times Literary Supplement, 14 August 1930    Shaw, "Behind the Mask," Black Mask, June 1930    An Appreciated Denial, New York Post    Eugene Cunningham, "Another Hammett Book Coming," El Paso Times, 1 June 1930    Dorothy Parker, "Oh Look - Two Good Books!" The New Yorker, 25 April 1931    Lewis Gannett, "A Boy's Choice" from "Books and Things," New York Herald         Tribune, 16 November 1931    Introduction and opening of newspaper serialization of Hammett's novel, London         Evening Standard, 3 January 1931 A Case of Plagiarism    "Book Stopped by a Publisher: Similarity Puzzle: Author's Statement,"         London Daily Express, 1933    "American Book Published in 1930," The New York Times, 6 September 1933    "Briton, 21, Admits Plagiary of Novel," The New York Times, 26 September 1933    "British Bar Sales of Book," The New York Times, 28 September 1933    "Hammett's Rights Upheld in Britain," The New York Times, 14 October 1933    Funny Coincidence Department, The New Yorker, 13 July 1948 Joseph C. Lesser, Sales of The Maltese Falcon Falcon in the Modern Library, News (Galveston, Texas), 1 April 1934 CRITICAL VIEWS OF THE MALTESE FALCON John M. Reilly, "Sam Spade Talking," Clues, Fall-Winter 1980 "Meet This Week's Author," Philadelphia Record, 9 October 1938 Robert Shulman, "Dashiell Hammett's Social Vision," Centennial Review, Fall 1985 Christopher Metress, "Dashiell Hammett and the Challenge of New Individualism: Rereading Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon," The Cunning Craft: Original Essays on Detective Fiction (1990) Jasmine Yong Hall, "Jameson, Genre, and Gumshoes: The Maltese Falcon as Inverted Romance," The Cunning Craft Paul P. Abrahams, "On Re-Reading The Maltese Falcon," Journal of American Culture, Spring 1995 R. H. Miller, "The Emperor's Gift, or, What Did the Knights Give the Emperor?" Studies in American Culture, 1998 Vince Emery, "Hammettisms in The Maltese Falcon," 2003 (Click title to read this item.) MOVIES, STAGE, AND RADIO Hammett after The Maltese Falcon    Joseph T. Shaw, affidavit declaring the circumstances of his purchase rights to The Maltese Falcon    Hammett, first pages of Sam Spade story, American Magazine, October 1932    "Dashiell Hammett Jailed in Contempt," 1951 Three Movies Making the First Movie    Clipping from The New York Times, 3 March 1931    Darryl F. Zanuck, memo, 2 April 1931    Manuscript of revised ending    Roy Del Ruth, note requesting script revisions    Final budget    Credits    Reviews of the First Maltese Falcon Movie        "Mystery Galore," The New York Times, 29 May 1931        Review of The Maltese Falcon, Variety, 2 June 1931    Marguerite Tazelaar, "A Private Detective Does His Stuff in Hollywood," New York Herald Tribune, 12 November 1933    Hal Wallis, memo, 27 June 1934 Making Satan Met a Lady    Henry Blanke, memo to Wallis, 27 May 1935    Joseph Breen, memo to Jack Warner, 4 June 1935    Breen, memo to Jack Warner, 27 November 1935    Walter MacEwen, memo to R. J. Obringer with response from Obringer, 5 December 1935    MacEwen, memo to Warner, 9 July 1936    Studio credits and synopsis for Satan Met a Lady, 1 July 1936    Credits, Variety, 29 July 1936    Reviews of Satan Met a Lady        "At the Strand," The New York Times, 23 July 1936        Review of Satan Met a Lady, Variety, 29 July 1936 Making Huston's Maltese Falcon    List of possible cast choices, 19 May 1941    Breen, memo to Warner, 27 May 1941    Final budget, 3 June 1941    John Huston, memo to Wallis, 13 June 1941    Al Alleborn, memo to T. C. Wright, 18 June 1941    Alleborn, memo to Wright, 19 July 1941    On the Set         Mary Astor, "Shall we talk about the Black Bird?" Mary Astor: A Life on Film (1971)         "Warners' 'Maltese Falcon' Set at a Glance"    Promotional flyer Reviews of Huston's Movie     Review of The Maltese Falcon, Variety, 1 October 1941     Bosley Crowther, "The Maltese Falcon, a Fast Mystery-Thriller with Quality         and Charm, at the Strand," The New York Times, 4 October 1941     Richard Griffith, "Maltese Falcon Rated Top 'Number' in New York, 13 October 1941     Philip K. Scheuer, "Thrillers at Warners Rated Hits," 1941 Analyzing a Classic     Leslie H. Abramson, "Two Birds of a Feather: Hammett's and Huston's         The Maltese Falcon," Literature/Film Quarterly, 1988     William Luhr, "Tracking The Maltese Falcon: Classical Hollywood Narration         and Sam Spade," Close Viewings: An Anthology of New Film Criticism (1990)     Peter P. Gillis, "An Anomaly in The Maltese Falcon," ANQ, Summer 1995     Steven H. Gale, "The Maltese Falcon: Melodrama or Film Noir?"         Literature/Film Quarterly, 1996 Layman, "Huston's Black Bird" Play Productions    First page of contract between Hammett and Benjamin Glazer    Title page and staging note for Laurence Stalling's "Here's to Crime"     "'Maltese Falcon' Script Completed," New York Herald Tribune, 12 March 1931 Radio Broadcasts and Series    First page of contact granting radio rights for the broadcast of the screenplay         of The Maltese Falcon, 5 June 1946    The Case of The Adventures of Sam Spade    Hammett, affidavit, United States District Court, Southern District of         New York, 20 September 1948    First page of a radio script for The Adventures of Sam Spade, 9 July 1946    Dashiell Hammett's The Adventures of Sam Spade comic strip advertisement    John Crosby, Sam Spade's style stirs up new crime detection angle," New         York Herald Tribune    Delle Hunter, "Hero by Hammett"    Jane Pelgram, "The Duff Caper" Selected Publications of The Maltese Falcon For Further Reading Index Click here for reviews of Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade. Click here for news about this book. Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade is the second title in The Ace Performer Collection, a new series of books by and about Dashiell Hammett, crowned "the ace performer" by his disciple Raymond Chandler. Oversized 7 x 10 paperback. More than 250 black & white and color photographs and illustrations; 376 pages. Edited by Richard Layman. Publication date September 7, 2005, $19.95, ISBN 0-9725898-6-4. You can order Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade from your local mystery bookstore, your local independent bookstore, and all major bookstores and online booksellers. Booksellers order from Independent Publishers Group (IPG), (800) 888-4741, fax (312) 337-5985, orders@ipgbook.com