November 25, 2019 at 9:42 pm
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Oh man, I love this topic. Hammet is excellent. Last December and January I read Glass Key, Thin Man, and Maltese Falcon. I also read the entire Chandler catalog, which I love even more.
Impossible to measure how both of those authors redefined the hard boiled genre, but also all of film history from 1941 onward. There is hardly a more fascinating document of post-war America than the full noir cycle (ending in roughly 1958).
Somebody better stop me. This could go on for awhile.
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