![]() ![]() “She squirmed on her end of the settee and her eyes wavered between heavy lashes, as if trying and failing to free their glaze from his.”įor the most part, he just lets the story playout through the dialog and action of the characters. “Spade put the cigarette in his mouth, set fire to it, and laughed smoke out.” He keeps things simple, but occasionally slips in clever little phrases, such as: Hammett writes well – narration is largely just descriptions. If you don't think it's culturally relevant, just know that the prop statue from the 1941 film sold for $4 Million in 2013! 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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