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| Books LLC : Novels by Dashiell Hammett (Study Guide): The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, the Dain Curse, the Thin Man, the Glass Key | |
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Novels by Dashiell Hammett (Study Guide): The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, the Dain Curse, the Thin Man, the Glass Key |
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English |
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Paperback |
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30 |
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2010-09-14 |
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1156856175 |
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Books LLC |
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0.13 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.04 inches |
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, the Dain Curse, the Thin Man, the Glass Key. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine "Black Mask". The story has been adapted several times for the cinema. The main character, Sam Spade, appears only in this novel and in three lesser known short stories, yet is widely cited as the crystallizing figure in the development of the hard-boiled private detective genre Raymond Chandler's character Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Hammett's Spade. Spade was a departure from Hammett's nameless and less than glamorous detective, The Continental Op. Sam Spade combined several features of previous detectives, most notably his cold detachment, keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice. He is the man who has seen the wretched, the corrupt, the tawdry side of life but still retains his "tarnished idealism". Private eye Sam Spade and his partner Miles Archer are hired into service to a woman who calls herself Miss Wonderly to follow a man, Floyd Thursby, who has allegedly run off with her underage baby sister. Spade and Archer take the assignment because the money is good. Spade also implies that the woman looks like trouble, though she projects wholesome innocence. That night, Spade is awakened by police detective Tom Polhaus, who informs Spade that Archer has been shot, killed and left at the bottom of a dead-end street. Spade knows that Archer was supposed to be tailing Thursby and tells Polhaus this when questioned about Archer's activities but refuses to reveal the identity of their client. Much later that night, Polhaus and his partner Lieut...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=60161
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