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The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett

It’s impossible to read this book without visualising Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade. I gave up trying to see him any other way after the first page. Hammett seems to have described Spade’s face as forming a V about twenty … Continue reading

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