http://www.geocities.com/mwh_1957/Hammett01.html
This site salutes the works of hard-boiled-mystery writer Samuel Dashiell Hammett by presenting a chronology of his short stories and novels including "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man." Also provides brief biographical information, photos of the San Francisco apartment believed to be the home of Hammett's detective Sam Spade, and related links.
And you can find some of his short stories online, some of them very
short, like "The Parthian Shot" !
http://www.ejmd.mcmail.com/secret.htm
http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/biblio/lazy-gink.html
and some other links to sites about the same subject at the end of page 5 of the site:
http://www.geocities.com/mwh_1957/Hammett05.html ]