![]() ![]() ![]() I really enjoyed the read, as it’s as pure a ‘film-noir’ hard-boiled detective story as you get - brimmed hats, cigarettes, guns, and even opening with a femme fatale walking into the detective agency as the opening scene. I had seen the film long ago and I remember enjoying it, but to be honest, I couldn’t remember the plot. Humphrey Bogart played Sam Spade in the most famous adaptation of The Maltese Falcon in 1941. Dashiell Hammett was a major influence on the establishment of ‘hard-boiled’ detective fiction and through film adaptations of his stories – film-noir. It was eventually published as a novel in 1930. Dashiell Hammett wrote this story originally as a serial in the magazine Black Mask. I found an interesting old hardbound version of this novel at a used bookstore and I couldn’t resist it. Sam Spade doesn’t need to go looking for trouble, trouble finds him. ![]()
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