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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930)
This week, grab your trench coat and light a cigarette as we plunge into the murky streets of San Francisco with Dashiell Hammett's seminal 1930 novel, The Maltese Falcon, the book that codified the style and tone of hard-boiled detective fiction. The story centers on cynical, world-weary private investigator Sam Spade, who is immediately thrown into a violent, complex web of deceit following the murder of his partner. . We explore how Hammett revolutionized the detective genre by stripping away the drawing-room elegance of earlier mysteries, focusing instead on corruption, morally ambiguous…
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