The concept of a corrupt society filled with power hungry individuals is a constant underlying theme in Hammett’s work. Dashiell Hammett, while working as a detective for Pinkerton detective agency was offered a huge sum of money to kill off union leader Frank Little to suppress a labor strike (whic...
Anybody who read this book without any prior knowledge of it would probably dismiss it as being full of cliches, archetypes and tropes, they would be dead wrong of course because this is where those tropes and such originated. The anti-hero, smooth talking P.I., the femme fatale, the plucky Girl Fri...
Read from April 20 to 21, 2013 In the past when I've read about hardboiled detectives, I remember a saying something like: there are Raymond Chandler fans and there are Dashiell Hammett fans, but rarely will there be fans of both. I'm a big Chandler fan but I've liked quite a few films made from ...
It's a classic for a reason - I've read this a bunch of times and I still have literally no idea what the plot is supposed but I always find it utterly compelling. I love the spare, cold, closed off narration, Spade's general unpleasantness and the utterly untrustworthiness of, well, basically ever...
I learned about this book watching a TED Talk that featured Adam Savage talking about his personal obsession with The Maltese Falcon. I stumbled into this book twice in different libraries so I decided to give it a shot. I'm not a big fan of detective stories so I may be missing some elements that a...
The edition (which I got from the library) is a lovely one. It has black & white photographs throughout that are historic photos of San Francisco in 1928, showing locations as Sam Spade would have seen them. Love it! (Published by North Point Press, ISBN 0-86547-156-8/cloth, 0-86547-157-6/paper).Thi...
A ver chavales, si quieren leer este libro deben de saber como un poquito de historia, ya que es probable que digan AHHH QUE PINSHI CLICHÉ y estarán en lo correcto, la diferencia es que este es de los libros que formaron el cliché de las historias de policías que conocen. El libro se escribió por ah...
Everyone, I think, knows this story. The Humphrey Bogart movie made from this book is a cinematic classic. So, too, is this book. In fact, the movie was very true to the book, right down to the dialogue.A former private detective himself, Hammett's writing style is precise and without waste, as if h...
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