Dead Yellow Women . New York: Laurence E. Spivak, 1947.
——. The Glass Key. New York: Vintage, 1989.
——. Hammett: Crime Stories and Other Writings . New York: Library of America, 2001.
——. The Hunter and Other Stories . Edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett. (New York: Mysterious Press, 2013).
——. Lost Stories . Edited by Vince Emery. San Francisco, CA: Vince Emery Productions, 2005.
——. The Maltese Falcon . New York: Vintage, 1992. First published 1930 by Alfred A. Knopf.
——. The Maltese Falcon . New York: Modern Library, 1934.
——. A Man Called Spade and Other Stories . New York: Dell, 1944.
——. Nightmare Town: Stories . New York: Vintage Crime, 1999.
——. Red Harvest . New York: Vintage Crime, 1992. First published 1929 by Alfred A. Knopf.
——. The Return of the Continental Op . New York: Dell, 1945.
——. Return of the Thin Man . Edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett. New York: Mysterious Press, 2012.
——. The Thin Man . New York: Vintage, 1972. First published 1933 by Alfred A. Knopf.
——. Woman in the Dark: A Novel of Dangerous Romance . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933.
Hammett, Jo. Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers . Edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2001.
Hellman, Lillian. Scoundrel Time . New York: Bantam, 1976.
——. An Unfinished Woman . New York: Bantam, 1974.
Herron, Don. The Dashiell Hammett Tour . San Francisco, CA: Emery/Ace Performer, 2009.
Holt, Patricia. The Good Detective: True Cases from the Confidential Files of Hal Lipset, America’s Real-Life Sam Spade . New York: Pocket, 1991.
Horan, James D., and Howard Swiggett. The Pinkerton Story . New York: Putnam, 1951.
Johnson, Diane. Dashiell Hammett: A Life . New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1983.
Johnson, Paul C. The Early Sunset Magazine, 1898–1928 . San Francisco, CA: California Historical Society, 1973.
Layman, Richard, ed. Discovering the Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade . San Francisco, CA: Vince Emery Productions, 2005.
——, ed. Literary Masters Volume 3: Dashiell Hammett . Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2000.
——. Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett . New York: Harvest/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
Lukas, J. Anthony. Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets off a Struggle for the Soul of America . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
MacKay, James. Allan Pinkerton: The First Private Eye . New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1996.
McWatters, George S. Knots Untied: Or, Ways and By-Ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives . Hartford, CT: J. B. Burr and Hyde, 1871.
Meade, Marion. Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney . New York: Mariner/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 2010.
Mellow, James B. Charmed Circle . Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 1974.
Morn, Frank. The Eye That Never Sleeps: A History of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975.
Nolan, William. Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook . Santa Barbara, CA: McNally and Loftin, 1969.
——. Hammett: A Life at the Edge . New York: Congdon and Weed, 1983.
O’Brien, Robert. This Is San Francisco: A Classic Portrait of theCity . San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1994. First published 1948 by Whittlesey House.
Penzler, Otto, ed. The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories . New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2010.
Perelman, S. J. The Last Laugh: The Final Word from the First Name in Satire . Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2000.
Pinkerton, Allan. The Model Town and the Detectives . New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1876.
——. The Mollie Maguires and the Detectives . G. W. Dillingham, 1877.
——. The Expressman and the Detective . Chicago: W. B. Keen, Cooke, 1874.
——. Thirty Years a Detective . Warwick, NY: 1500 Books, 2007.
Poe, Edgar Allan. Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe . New York: Perennial, 1970.
Punke, Michael. Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of
Daniela Fischerova, Neil Bermel