SOURCE: Maxfield, James F. “Hard-Boiled Dicks and Dangerous Females: Sex and Love in the Detective Fiction of Dashiell Hammett.” Clues 6, no. 1 (spring 1985): 107-23.
In the following essay, Maxfield focuses on Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key, suggesting that the author's seemingly straightforward, objective style contrasts with the ambiguous, self-contradictory characterizations in the novel.
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