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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

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The Maltese Falcon can refer to: The Maltese Falcon , a 1930 novel by Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon , a 1941 film by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart, based on the novel by Hammett Note that the dialogue from the film is taken almost...


Author Biography

Name: Dashiell Hammett
Birth Date: May 27, 1894
Death Date: January 10, 1961
Place of Birth: Maryland, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, novelist

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Biography of (Samuel) Dashiell Hammett
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Dashiell Hammett is generally credited with bringing a new degree of authenticity as well as artistry to the crime fiction that flourished in the pulp magazines of the first decades of the twentieth century. Hammett created several of the most famous Ame...
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Biography of Dashiell Hammett
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In March 1928, just after Dashiell Hammett had submitted his first novel for publication, he wrote to his editor, Blanche Knopf, that unlike most moderately literate people, he took detective fiction seriously: "Some day somebody's going to make 'literat...
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Biography of Dashiell Hammett
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"I'm one of the few--if there are any more--people moderately literate who take the detective story seriously," Dashiell Hammett wrote to his publisher in 1928 at the beginning of his novel-writing career. "I don't mean that I necessarily take my own or...
 


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The Maltese Falcon Summary
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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett After a series of unsatisfying jobs, Dashiell Hammett became an agent for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency in 1915. Hammett enjoyed the thrill of the sometimes dangerous job and worked, as his health...
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The Maltese Falcon Information
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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...


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The Maltese Falcon
07/16/2002: 334 words, approx. 1 pages
The Maltese Falcon ... and other classic Film Scores by Adolph Deutsch. Restauriert von John Moigan, gespielt vom Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Ltg.: William Stromberg. Marco Palo 8.225169, Länge: 75:51 Min. Weil fell die Filmmusik als kreative Sparte oft vernachlässigt wurde, gerieten Vauch...
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The Maltese Falcon/vintage Hammett
02/02/2005: 922 words, approx. 3 pages
THE MALTESE FALCON By Dashiell Hammett Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, ziypp., $11.95 VINTAGE HAMMETT By Dashiell Hammett Vintage, 197 pp., $9.95 When will we talk about the black bird? Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon turns 75 THE FRIENDS OF MR. CAIRO Those finding...
 


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