| THINMAN | Dashiell Hammett's last novel, with "The" |
| THIN | Dashiell Hammett's last novel, The ... Man |
| THETHINMAN | Dashiell Hammett's last novel |
| SIGMAPROTOCOL | Ludlum's last novel (with "The") |
| MALTESEFALCON | Dashiell Hammett's 1930 detective novel (with "The") |
| SAMSPADE | Protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon |
| SPADE | Dashiell Hammett's detective, Sam ..., comments on the Maltese Falcon that it's the "stuff that dre |
| ASTA | The schnauzer bitch in Dashiell Hammett's detective story 'The Thin Man' (4) |
| MALTESE | Type of falcon at the heart of Dashiell Hammett's novel? (7) |
| DAIN | Dashiell Hammett's "The ___ Curse" |
| SAM | Dashiell Hammett's fictional detective in The Maltese Falcon, ___ Spade |
| REDHARVEST | US crime writer Dashiell Hammett's first novel, published in 1929 (3,7) |
| NOIR | Dashiell Hammett's genre |
| HALLOWS | Harry Potter and the Deathly ____, last novel in the series |
| DANIELDERONDA | Novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876, the last novel she completed (6,7) |
| EDWINDROOD | The Mystery Of - - - - - -, Charles Dickens's last novel, left unfinished at the time of his death (5,5) |
| THEREIVERS | ___: A Reminiscence the last novel by William Faulkner that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| LECARRE | John, pen name of the late British author whose last novel was Agent Running in the Field (2,5) |
| CURTAIN | ---: Poirot's Last Case, the last novel published by Agatha Christie (7) |
| KNEW | Was acquainted with Steinbeck's last novel |
