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The novel, first published as a serial in the pulp magazine Black Mask, is the only one that Spade appears in, yet the character is widely cited as the crystallizing figure in the development of the hard-boiled private detective genre – Raymond...


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The New York Observer
Angry Sportscaster Keith Olbermann Has Piazza's Bat\'d1And Is Keeping It!
3/18/2007: 2,208 words, approx. 7 pages
As spring training turns serious and the Mets and the Yankees limber their hamstrings in the Land of the Pregnant Chad, the sportscaster Keith Olbermann will now clear up a couple of baseball related items: 1. She’s fine. 2. No, he’s not giving it back....


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Critical Essay by Peter Wolfe
537 words, approx. 2 pages
More than two generations of readers have made Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade their model of the hard-boiled private eye. They have enshrined Spade without knowing much about him. What they have overlooked is his heart. His toughness is leavened by both tenderness and subtlety; he has a feminine sensitivity to atmospheres and textures. Though basically a man of action, he doesn't exhaust his personality in man-talk or high-speed movement…. Hammett's complexity of insight brought ne...


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