Dashiell Hammett, the bestselling creator of Sam Spade, "The Maltese Falcon", and "The Thin Man", was one of the America's most entertaining authors, and one of its most influential. Even so, many of Hammett's stories-including some of his best-have been out of the reach of anyone but a handful of scholars and collectors-until now.
"Lost Stories" rescues 21 long-lost Hammett stories, all either never published in an anthology or unavailable for decades. You cannot find these stories anywhere else.
To round out this celebration of Hammett, three-time Edgar Award winner Joe Gores has written an introduction describing how Hammett influenced literature, movies, television, and Gores' own life.