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In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel. In the words of Raymond Chandler, “Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse. . . . He put these people down…
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A satisfying (if less-renowned) TV highlight of 2024 was the six episode AMC series Monsieur Spade that boldly took the familiar Sam Spade private eye character of The Maltese Falcon fame and transplanted him from San Francisco in the 1930s/1940s to France in the early 1960s. It shouldn’t have worked, but it did.
While quite familiar with the Hollywood film adaptations of Spade, we had never read the original Dashiell Hammett book where Spade made his debut. Spurred again by a new TV series, we sought out this fine 1999 collection of Hammett’s five full-length novels (from the late-1920s to…
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