Discovering The Maltese Falcon And Sam Spade

Author : Richard Layman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015066087084

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Discovering the Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade by Richard Layman Pdf

"Dashiell Hammett's novel The Maltese Falcon is often named as one of the best twentieth-century novels. John Huston's film adaptation is one of the earliest examples of film noir. It made Humphrey Bogart a star, and was selected by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest movies of all time. Now, Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade uncovers from institutional and private archives a wealth of treasures about Hammett's masterpiece, his detective Sam Spade, the three film versions of the novel, stage adaptations, Sam Spade short stories, radio presentations, and even comics. Many of the discoveries here are previously unpublished. The book provides hundreds of rare documents and original source materials, including production notes for the three movie versions. Contributors include Dashiell Hammett himself, plus Jo Hammett, Richard Layman, Mary Astor, Joseph Shaw, Dorothy Parker, John Huston, Hal Wallis, Darryl F. Zanuck, Joe Gores, William F. Nolan, and more than fifty additional writers. It is illustrated with more than 200 photos, illustrations, and facsimiles. The book is a joy for fans of Hammett, Sam Spade, detective fiction, film noir, and the history of literature and cinema."--Publisher's website.

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547163077

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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

The fragrant Miss Wonderley hires Sam Spade, a private detective, to track down her sister, who has eloped with an immoral man called Floyd Thursby. But trouble finds Spade when his partner Miles Archer gets shot while on Thursby's trail. "The Maltese Falcon" is a classic mystery novel that shaped how writers told detective stories.

Author : Joe Gores
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307271488

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Spade & Archer by Joe Gores Pdf

A wonderfully dark, pitch-perfect noir prequel to The Maltese Falcon, featuring Dashiell Hammett’s beloved detective, Sam Spade. It’s 1921—seven years before Sam Spade will solve the famous case of the Maltese Falcon. He’s just set up his own agency in San Francisco and he gets off to a quick start, working cases (he doesn’t do domestic) and hiring a bright young secretary named Effie Perrine. When he’s hired by a prominent San Francisco banker to find his missing son, Spade gets the break he’s been looking for. He spends the next few years dealing with booze runners, waterfront thugs, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, and bumbling cops. He brings in Miles Archer as a partner to help bolster the agency, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. All along, Spade will tangle with an enigmatic villain who holds a long-standing grudge against Spade. And, of course, he’ll fall in love—though it won’t turn out for the best. It never does with dames.

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0972589805

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Lost Stories by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

The deluxe limited edition of Lost Stories by Dashiell Hammett was published months before the trade edition, making this limited edition the first book publication for several Hammett stories, and the first hardcover edition for all but 5 of the 21 stories. The deluxe collector's edition is limited to 195 hand-numbered copies, each signed by both Joe Gores and Vince Emery, and bound in cloth with a spine of Saderra leather. The book's spine and front cover are stamped with genuine gold, and page edges are gilt. It is housed in a matching slipcase with debossed art panels on the front and back sides.

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547108610

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The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories" by Dashiell Hammett. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : John Huston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 194?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:30082027

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The Maltese Falcon by John Huston Pdf

Author : DASHIELL HAMMETT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE MALTESE FALCON by DASHIELL HAMMETT Pdf

Author : Julie McElwain
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681771151

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A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain Pdf

When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a 19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life—200 years before she was even born. Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates. While fleeing from an unexpected assassin herself, Kendra escapes into a stairwell that promises sanctuary but when she stumbles out again, she is in the same place - Aldrich Castle - but in a different time: 1815, to be exact. Mistaken for a lady's maid hired to help with weekend guests, Kendra is forced to quickly adapt to the time period until she can figure out how she got there; and, more importantly, how to get back home. However, after the body of a young girl is found on the extensive grounds of the county estate, she starts to feel there's some purpose to her bizarre circumstances. Stripped of her twenty-first century tools, Kendra must use her wits alone in order to unmask a cunning madman.

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066372835

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The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

'The Glass Key' by Dashiell Hammett is a gripping tale of loyalty, betrayal, and political intrigue. Ned Beaumont, a trusted advisor to the powerful political boss Paul Madvig, becomes entangled in a murder investigation when he discovers the body of a senator's son. As Ned delves deeper into the case, he faces danger, deceit, and a web of secrets that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear. With unexpected alliances and shocking revelations, Ned must navigate a treacherous world to uncover the truth and bring justice to those responsible.

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307767486

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Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

The steadfast and sturdy Continental Op has been summoned to the town of Personville—known as Poisonville—a dusty mining community splintered by competing factions of gangsters and petty criminals. The Op has been hired by Donald Willsson, publisher of the local newspaper, who gave little indication about the reason for the visit. No sooner does the Op arrive, than the body count begins to climb . . . starting with his client. With this last honest citizen of Poisonville murdered, the Op decides to stay on and force a reckoning—even if that means taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802121585

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The Hunter and Other Stories by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

An anthology of eighteen short stories includes a number of previously unpublished pieces as well as early screen treatments for "On the Make" and "The Kiss-Off."

Author : Sam Toperoff
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590515693

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Lillian and Dash by Sam Toperoff Pdf

This exciting novel about Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man) and Lillian Hellman (The Children’s Hour) reintroduces their larger-than-life personalities and the vicissitudes of their affair that spanned three decades. Toperoff reimagines the highs and lows of a fast-living, hard-drinking literary couple, and their individual passions, projects, and literary creations. Hammett and Hellman’s relationship evolves during major artistic and political epochs—Hollywood’s heyday, the New York literary scene, the Spanish Civil War, McCarthyism, and both world wars—and each movement is captured with subjectivity and credible insight. Populated with writers, drinkers, filmmakers, and revolutionaries, Lillian and Dash chronicles the unusual affair of two prominent and headstrong figures.

Author : Sally Cline
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781628723786

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Dashiell Hammett by Sally Cline Pdf

Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, he transformed the mystery genre into literature and left us with the figure of the hard-boiled detective, from the Continental Op to Sam Spade—immortalized on film by Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon—and the more glamorous Thin Man, also made iconic with the aid of Hollywood. A brilliant writer, Hammett was a complex and enigmatic man. After 1934 until his death in 1961, he published no more novels and suffered from a writer’s block that both shamed and maimed him. He is identified with his tough protagonists, but his tuberculosis compromised his masculine identity and alcoholism may have been his answer. A former Pinkerton detective who valued honesty, he was attracted to women who lied outrageously, most notably Lillian Hellman, with whom he conducted a thirty-year affair. A controversial political activist who stood up for civil liberty, he was also a very private man. In this compact new biography, Sally Cline uses fresh research, including interviews with Hammett’s family and Hellman’s heir, to reexamine the life and works of the writer whom Raymond Chandler called “the ace performer.”

Author : Nathan Ward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781632862778

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The Lost Detective by Nathan Ward Pdf

A 2016 Edgar Award Nominee Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting during the McCarthy era, and his subsequent downward spiral, Dashiell Hammett led a life of action. Born in 1894 into a poor Maryland family, Hammett left school at fourteen and held several jobs before joining the Pinkerton National Detective Agency as an operative in 1915 and, with time off in 1918 to serve at the end of World War I, he remained with the agency until 1922, participating alike in the banal and dramatic action of an operative. The tuberculosis he contracted during the war forced him to leave the Pinkertons--but it may well have prompted one of America's most acclaimed writing careers. While Hammett's life on center stage has been well-documented, the question of how he got there has not. That largely overlooked phase is the subject of Nathan Ward's enthralling The Lost Detective. Hammett's childhood, his life in San Francisco, and especially his experience as a detective deeply informed his writing and his characters, from the nameless Continental Op, hero of his stories and early novels, to Sam Spade and Nick Charles. The success of his many stories in the pulp magazine Black Mask following his departure from the Pinkertons led him to novels; he would write five between 1929 and 1934, two of them (The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man) now American classics. Though he inspired generations of writers, from Chandler to Connelly and all in between, after The Thin Man he never finished another book, a painful silence for his devoted readers; and his popular image has long been shaped by the remembrance of Hellman, who knew him after his literary reputation had been made. Based on original research across the country, The Lost Detective is the first book to illuminate Hammett's transformation from real detective to great American detective writer, throwing brilliant new light on one of America's most celebrated and remembered novelists and his world.

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106018661030

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Lost Stories by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

Lost Stories rescues 21 long-unavailable Dashiell Hammett stories from the first fiction he wrote to the last, each with an explanation of how the author's life shaped his story and how the story fits in his life.