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Maltese Falcon

3 Ratings: 4.0

A book by Dashiell Hammett

Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is morenoirthanL.A. Confidentialand more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. InThe Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (includingThe Dain CurseandThe … see full wiki

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Author: Dashiell Hammett

Publisher: Amereon Ltd

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Quick Tip by cpw1952. December 31, 2010

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

A Quick Tip by cpw1952

If you'd like to discover the source for virtually every convention, stereotype and cliché used for the hard-boiled detective genre, then THE MALTESE FALCON is your book. Dashiel Hammett started it all and Sam Spade is the progenitor for virtually every lone gun-toting, cigarette smoking, hard-bitten gumshoe that followed to the present day.

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review by cpw1952. December 31, 2010

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

The genesis of hard-boiled detective fiction

Private eye, Sam Spade, and his erstwhile partner, Miles Archer, are having a slow day. Spade rolls a cigarette from his stock of Bull Durham. When a beautiful young dish introduces herself with an alias and tells them a story of her younger, impressionable sister having run off with a man named Floyd Thursby, the money is a powerful incentive to accept the case. Despite their new client's wholesome good looks and appearance of youthful innocence, Spade and his secretary, Effie Perrine, have … more

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