Dashiell Baseball T-Shirts

With this image, we celebrate Dashiell Hammett, the father of a hard-boiled detective novel.

With this image, we celebrate Dashiell Hammett, the father of a hard-boiled detective novel, the creator of Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon and and indirectly of the film-noir genre.

Dashiell Hammett is the father of a hard-boiled detective novel and an American classic.

Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man

John Huston's classic 1941 film based on Dashiell Hammett's 1931 masterpiece.

Alternative movie poster for the 1984 film from Joel and Ethan Coen, "Blood Simple," imagined as a pulp book cover. Starring Frances McDormand, John Getz, Dan Hedaya and M. Emmett Walsh

Nick and Nora investigate some hometown homicide.

John Huston's classic 1941 film based on Dashiell Hammett's 1931 masterpiece.

I ain't following nobody, doc.

The Maltese Falcon Novel Cover

Solve a mystery with Nick and Nora

Lillian Hellman was an American playwright, prose writer, and screenwriter. She was famous for her plays The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest, Watch on the Rhine, The Autumn Garden, and Toys in the Attic. Ms. Hellman was a companion of writer Dashiell Hammett.

The Maltese Falcon - Alternative Movie Poster

John Huston's classic 1941 film based on Dashiell Hammett's 1931 masterpiece.

From the 1941 film based on the Dashiell Hammett novel.

The Thin Man Movie Poster (Sepia/Frame)

Sam Spade