“Suggestions to Detective Story Writers,” Dashiell Hammett

“The Main Death,” Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett, “Creeping Siamese”

Dashiell Hammett, “The Gutting of Couffignal”

Dashiell Hammett, “Zigzags of Treachery”

Dashiell Hammett, “The Tenth Clew”

On its 75th anniversary, John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon is still a marvel of tough, sardonic suspense

Cocktails, wisecracks, and murder: The Thin Man’s married couple for the ages

Geoffrey O’Brien: The House of Walworth, American Gothic, and Gilded Age literature

Ross Macdonald: “Chandler tried to kill me”