Former private investigator and hard-boiled stylist Joe Gores offers his take on what Dashiell Hammett's cool, imperturbable, and wholly self-sufficient protagonist would have been up to before getting mixed up with the Maltese Falcon case....
An often ignored key to Hammett's philosophy is contained in the anecdote of Flitcraft that Spade tells Brigid O'Shaughnessy in a seemingly tossed-off aside. According to critic Steven Marcus, in his introduction to Hammett's THE CONTEINTAL...
This volume collects Hammett's five completed novels, RED HARVEST, THE DAIN CURSE, THE MALTESE FALCON, THE GLASS KEY, and THE THIN MAN. Hammett's writing is often cited as the earliest--and among the best--example of hard-boiled, noir detec...
The author's three most famous noir novels are published together for the first time in this unique single-volume celebration of the imagination that produced Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles, among other giants of the genre.
Few films have had the impact or retained the popularity of The Maltese Falcon. An unexpected hit upon its release in 1941, it helped establish the careers of John Huston and Humphrey Bogart while also helping both to transform the detectiv...