| MALTESEFALCON | Dashiell Hammett detective novel, with "The" |
| SAMSPADE | Dashiell Hammett detective played by Humphrey Bogart in "The Maltese Falcon" |
| NORA | Half of a Dashiell Hammett detective couple |
| CONTINENTALOP | Hammett detective story, with The |
| NED | Hammett detective Beaumont |
| SPADE | Hammett detective |
| MALTESE | 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, The _ Falcon (7) |
| THINMAN | The _ _, 1934 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett (4,3) |
| THIN | The --- Man, 1934 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett (4) |
| THETHINMAN | 1934 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett that was the basis for a film series starring William Powell and Myrna Loy (3,4,3) |
| COLLINS | Author of The Woman in White, No Name and Poor Miss Finch whose book The Moonstone is generally regarded as the first detective novel (7) |
| HAMMETT | Dashiell -; author whose detective novel The Maltese Falcon was adapted into a film with Humphrey Bogart (7) |
| DASHIELL | _ Hammett, US author of the detective novel The Maltese Falcon (1930) |
| THEMALTESEFALCON | 1929 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialised in the magazine Black Mask |
| MOONSTONE | The ____ is considered to be the first full length detective novel |
| THEMOONSTONE | 1868 book by Wilkie Collins that is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language |
| SARA | Paretsky who wrote the 2018 detective novel Shell Game |
| DREADFUL | 'The --- Hollow', 1953 detective novel by Nicholas Blake (8) |
| BIGSLEEP | The ___, 1939 detective novel by Raymond Chandler (3,5) |
| EVIL | _ Under The Sun, detective novel by Agatha Christie (4) |
