#Dashiel Hammett

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Bien, y en el otro lado ¿qué tenemos? Solamente el hecho de que quizá me quieres y que yo quizá te quiero a ti.

El halcón maltés (Dashiel Hammett)

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Red Harvest

Red HarvestDashiell Hammett | Vintage | 1972 (first published 1929) | 199 pages “This damned burg’s getting me. If I don’t get away soon I’ll be going blood-simple like the natives.” An unnamed operative from the Continental Detective Agency arrives in the small mining town of Personville (derisively nicknamed “Poisonville” by its residents), only to find that his prospective client has been…

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Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre - The Maltese Falcon (1941)

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Dashiell Hammett refusing to name names.

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Dashiell Hammett, May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961.

Being sworn in by Senator Joseph McCarthy just before refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee on March 26, 1953. Photo by Hank Walker.

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atwq lemony snicket thinks he's sam spade (hard boiled, effortlessly tough, fast-talking & witty, always wins, gets the girl) but he's really philip marlowe (clinically depressed, dryly sarcastic, desensitized to violence, gets his ass beat, always ends up alone)

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“I saw his girl, the big red-head, tonight in a speak,” I told him. “She’s saying you and I killed him because he knew too much.”

He said: “Hm-m-m. What speak was that? I might want to talk to her.”

“Studsy Burke’s Pigiron Club,” I said, and gave him the address. “Morelli hangs out there too. He tells me Julia Wolf’s real name is Nancy Kane and she has a boy friend doing time in Ohio—Face Peppler.”

—Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

Photo: A speakeasy in 1933, by Margaret Bourke-White for Life magazine

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"You shouldn't watch 'The Maltese Falcon,' it's problematic and---

Fuck your "problematic." Give me some popcorn.

unmute.

Writers, you really need to read Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon." The man is a master of description, atmosphere, and memorable characters.

The movie is amazingly close to the original text, and a masterpiece in its own right.

And fuck people who try to police what other people read and watch.

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Song of the Thin Man promo still

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Released on this day in 1941, THE MALTESE FALCON. What's your favorite line of dialog from John Huston's adaption of the Dashiell Hammett novel?

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I am reading The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett and damn is it like reading a story about Nick Valentine. The detective’s name is even Nick, and his wife is Nora! Just like the female SS!

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“The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett was published on or about February 14, 1930.

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Public library in Cuba featuring the work of Ray Bradbury, Dashiell Hammett, Jaws by Peter Benchley and Serpico by Peter Maas - but not Jorge Luis Borges.

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After the Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1936)  

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Myrna Loy and William Powell

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Dashiell Hammett, May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961.

1937 photo by Paul Dorsey.