The Complete Novels of Dashiell Hammett (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Detective Mysteries: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest, The Glass Key & The Dain CurseBy Dashiell Hammett
Length37h 47m
About this audiobook
The Complete Novels of Dashiell Hammett gathers the five works that defined the hard-boiled tradition: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man. Written in lean, unsentimental prose, these novels replace the genteel puzzle mystery with a modern landscape of corruption, violence, compromised loyalty, and moral ambiguity. Hammett's dialogue is clipped yet revealing, his plots intricate but driven by atmosphere and character, placing him at the center of twentieth-century American crime fiction and modernist realism. Hammett's authority derived from experience. Before becoming a writer, he worked for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, observing firsthand the habits of criminals, businessmen, policemen, and political fixers. Tuberculosis, wartime service, leftist sympathies, and a skeptical view of American institutions deepened his sense that crime was not an aberration but a social system. His detectives, from the Continental Op to Sam Spade, are shaped by this knowledge. This volume is essential for readers seeking the origins of noir and the modern detective novel. It offers not only suspense and wit, but a rigorous anatomy of power, deception, and survival in American life.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.5 (1K)
Includes Amazon, Goodreads
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length37 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Complete Novels of Dashiell Hammett (Annotated)
26XX. If They Hang You
2Introduction
27Red Harvest
3Author Biography
28I. A Woman in Green and a Man in Gray
4Historical Context
29II. The Czar of Poisonville
5Synopsis (Selection)
30III. Dinah Brand
Show all chaptersShow less
6The Maltese Falcon
31IV. Hurricane Street
7I. Spade & Archer
32V. Old Elihu Talks Sense
8II. Death in the Fog
33VI. Whisper’s Joint
9III. Three Women
34VII. That’s Why I Sewed You Up
10IV. The Black Bird
35VIII. A Tip on Kid Cooper
11V. The Levantine
36IX. A Black Knife
12VI. The Undersized Shadow
37X. Crime Wanted—Male or Female
13VII. G in the Air
38XI. The Swell Spoon
14VIII. Horse Feathers
39XII. A New Deal
15IX. Brigid
40XIII. $200.10—
16X. The Belvedere Divan
41XIV. Max
17XI. The Fat Man
42XV. Cedar Hill Inn
18XII. Merry-Go-Round
43XVI. Exit Jerry
19XIII. The Emperor’s Gift
44XVII. Reno
20XIV. La Paloma
45XVIII. Painter Street
21XV. Every Crackpot
46XIX. The Peace Conference
22XVI. The Third Murder
47XX. Laudanum
23XVII. Saturday Night
48XXI. The Seventeenth Murder
24XVIII. The Fall-Guy
49XXII. The Ice Pick
25XIX. The Russian’s Hand
50XXIII. Mr. Charles Proctor Dawn
More from Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon (Annotated)Dashiell Hammett8h 48m4.4 (1.2K)$1.99 · $0.00
Red Harvest (Annotated)Dashiell Hammett8h 39m$2 · $0.00
The Maltese Falcon (Annotated)Dashiell Hammett9h 13m$2 · $0.00
The Glass KeyDashiell Hammett6h 49m4.0 (19.2K)$1 · $0.00
Red HarvestDashiell Hammett8h 15m4.1 (31.8K)$1 · $0.00
The Maltese FalconDashiell Hammett7h 53m4.1 (119.6K)$0.99 · $0.00
The Dain CurseDashiell Hammett9h 8m3.9 (11.9K)$1 · $0.00
The Thin ManDashiell Hammett6h 46m4.0 (47.1K)$2 · $0.00
The Thin Man (Annotated)Dashiell Hammett8h 19m4.1 (246)$2 · $0.00
Dashiell Hammett - Der Engel vom ersten StockDashiell Hammett1h 24m3.2 (13)$13 · $0.00
The Maltese FalconDashiell Hammett6h 39m4.0 (154.4K)$12 · $0.00
La maldición de los DainDashiell Hammett6h 49m3.9 (10.5K)$6 · $0.00
Nick Charles, detectiveDashiell Hammett7h 16m4.0 (49.3K)$6 · $0.00
El halcón maltésDashiell Hammett8h 31m4.0 (138K)$5 · $0.00
La llave de cristalDashiell Hammett7h 45m4.0 (19.2K)$6 · $0.00
Cosecha rojaDashiell Hammett6h 47m4.1 (38.4K)$5 · $0.00
Dashiell Hammett - Sam Spade ermitteltDashiell Hammett1h 13m4.0 (33)$13 · $0.00
The Labyrinth of the SpiritsCarlos Ruiz Zafon27h 55m4.5 (77.2K)$53 · $0.00
Olympic Mountain PursuitJodie Bailey5h 55m4.6 (638)$12 · $0.00
Glen AffricKarine Giebel22h 51m4.5 (3.2K)$46 · $0.00
Deadly Badlands PursuitSharee Stover5h 53m4.6 (361)$12 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation) (Annotated)Fyodor Dostoevsky24h 25m4.5 (15.4K)$0.99 · $0.00
Three ComradesErich Maria Remarque15h 50m4.5 (47.3K)$2 · $0.00
AngelAnita Waller10h 30m4.6 (672)$30 · $0.00
The BorderDon Winslow29h 8m4.5 (35.7K)$53 · $0.00
FlashpointCatherine Coulter11h 38m4.5 (11.6K)$29 · $0.00
The Gothic Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition)Edgar Allan Poe21h 5m4.5 (2.9K)$1.99 · $0.00
The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie15h 43m4.6 (495)$33 · $0.00
Fang Si-Chi's First Love ParadiseYi-Han Lin8h 25m4.5 (4K)$26 · $0.00
The Rose CodeKate Quinn16h 2m4.4 (493.7K)$33 · $0.00
No Woman Left BehindJulie Moffett8h 49m4.5 (3K)$25 · $0.00
CovertJanie Crouch6h 15m4.5 (2K)$12 · $0.00
Cold Case InvestigationNicole Helm5h 30m4.6 (321)$5 · $0.00
The Lost Weekend (Annotated)Charles Jackson9h 46m4.5 (1K)$0.99 · $0.00
The ReunionJana DeLeon6h 31m4.5 (1.6K)$12 · $0.00
Courage Under FireSharon Dunn5h 50m4.5 (730)$24 · $0.00
Decoding the TruthJulie Miller7h 31m4.6 (350)$12 · $0.00
You may also like
I Will Have VengeanceMaurizio de Giovanni6h 38m4.0 (4.4K)$17
The Anatomy of GhostsAndrew Taylor13h 58m3.5 (3.2K)$30 · $0.00
The Ghost and the Haunted MansionCleo Coyle9h 39m4.3 (4K)$20
Dead Case in DeadwoodAnn Charles13h 32m4.4 (6.7K)$20
PulpCharles Bukowski3h 39m3.9 (52.6K)$18 · $0.00
Cherringham, Episodes 19–21Matthew Costello, Neil Richards7h 35m4.3 (484)$17
The Crimson CircleEdgar Wallace6h 57m3.9 (1.5K)$11 · $0.00
The Big SleepRaymond Chandler8h 35m4.0 (172.6K)$1 · $0.00
The Ghost and the Dead Man’s LibraryCleo Coyle8h 8m4.1 (5.1K)$20
The Ghost and the Dead DebCleo Coyle8h 11m4.1 (4.7K)$20
Burying the ConsigliereDominic S. Ferro11h 16m$5
The Golden Book of World's Greatest Mysteries – 60+ Whodunit Tales & Detective StoriesMark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, William Archer, Brander Matthews, Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wilkie Collins, E. F. Benson, M. R. James, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Anton Chekhov, Anna Katherine Green, W. F. Harvey, Fitz-James O'Brien, Katherine Rickford, Pliny the Younger, Helena Blavatsky, A. Conan Doyle, Villiers Adam, C. Moffett, F. Marryat, Théopile Gautier, L. Hearn, C. B. Fernando, R. L. Stevenson, T. W. Hanshew, Sir R. Anderson, R. A. Cram, Joseph L. French48h 44m3.7 (65)$0.99 · $0.00
Tingling Treats for Halloween: Detective Yarns, Supernatural Mysteries & Ghost StoriesEdgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Anton Chekhov, Arthur B. Reeve, Anna Katherine Green, Sir Robert Anderson, Thomas W. Hanshew, Mary E. Hanshew, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Cleveland Moffett, Florence Marryat, William Archer, Fitz-James O'Brien, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Pliny the Younger, William F. Harvey, M. R. James, Katherine Rickford, Ralph Adams Cram, E. F. Benson, Rudyard Kipling, Daniel Defoe, Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Leopold Kompert, Ambrose Bierce, Vincent O'Sullivan, Ellis Parker Butler, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Thomas Hardy, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Margaret Oliphant, Erckmann-Chatrian, Fiona Macleod, Amelia B. Edwards, Frederick Marryat, Théophile Gautier, Jack London, William T. Stead, Gambier Bolton, Andrew Jackson Davis, Nizida, Helena Blavatsky, Walter F. Prince, Mark Twain, Chester Bailey Fernald46h 29m$0.99 · $0.00
The Dead TalkThomas Grant Bruso59m$2 · $0.00
Timeless Gothic Lodge Whodunits – 3 Classic Mystery NovelsWilkie Collins, Anna Katharine Green, Earl Derr Biggers19h 9m$2
Crying BloodDonis Casey7h 54m4.1 (230)$17
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories One Hundred and One Tales of Mystery, by Famous Authors of East and WestVarious11h 11m3.0 (244)$2.30
Classic Radio’s Greatest Mystery Shows, Vol. 4Black Eye Entertainment7h 34m$17
The Golden Book of World's Greatest Mysteries – 60+ Whodunit Tales & Detective StoriesEdgar Allan Poe, A. Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wilkie Collins, Villiers Adam, C. Moffett, F. Marryat, William Archer, Fitz-James O'Brien, Mark Twain, E. F. Benson, Guy de Maupassant, Théopile Gautier, L. Hearn, C. B. Fernando, Brander Matthews, R. L. Stevenson, W. F. Harvey, Anna Katherine Green, Anton Chekhov, T. W. Hanshew, M. R. James, Katherine Rickford, Sir R. Anderson, R. A. Cram, Pliny the Younger, Joseph L. French, Ambrose Bierce, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Helena Blavatsky, Thomas Hardy48h 43m4.3 (16)$1.99 · $0.00
Masterpieces of Mystery (Vol. 1-4)Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Montague Rhodes James, Guy de Maupassant, William F. Harvey, Ralph Adams Cram, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Pliny the Younger, Arthur B. Reeve, Wilkie Collins, Anna Katherine Green, Anton Chekhov, Théopile Gautier, Mark Twain, Lafcadio Hearn, E. F. Benson, Arthur Machen, Brander Matthews, Cleveland Moffett, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, William Archer, Fitz-James O'Brien, Florence Marryat, Chester Bailey Fernando, Mary E. Hanshew, Thomas W. Hanshew27h 45m3.8 (46)$0.99 · $0.00