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The Maltese Falcon is a deserved classic of Noir Detective fiction. The writing was crisp and no-nonsense and I could picture Humphrey Bogart playing this part, even though I've never seen it. . .yet. Dashiell Hammett tailored it smoothly so that Bogart was a natural for the big screen edition.
The case begins when a femme fatale comes into the offices of Spade And Archer. What starts out to be a simple case of tailing her male friend ends up with Sam Spade's partner Miles Archer being gunned dow ...more
The case begins when a femme fatale comes into the offices of Spade And Archer. What starts out to be a simple case of tailing her male friend ends up with Sam Spade's partner Miles Archer being gunned dow ...more
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby.
To me, this story was 190 pages of ‘tell, don’t show.’ Lots of conversations. Sooooo many conversations about actions of the past, occurrences the night before, replays of events that happened previously. Ugh. I really didn’t like it.
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