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Complete Novels: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man
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John ([http://www.africa-eu.com/user/show/15...]) sent me home from Baltimore with this and Raymond Chandler as my "homework". "You think you can set up half your novel as a murder mystery and you haven't ready any Hammett? What about Chandler? What is wrong with you!?"
You get the picture.
Having read them, I can see why John sent me home with these two particular authors. The pulp environment in which they wrote (Chandler more so, from the look of things) probably forced their respective hands as far as quality and style went... Or did it? There is certainly some strong writing here. The characters can be a bit thing but there is a certain magic to the pacing Hammett has, the way he advanced the story. Staccato? Sometimes. But it's an effective technique. Hard-boiled, vicious, unrelenting. Entertaining.
You get the picture.
Having read them, I can see why John sent me home with these two particular authors. The pulp environment in which they wrote (Chandler more so, from the look of things) probably forced their respective hands as far as quality and style went... Or did it? There is certainly some strong writing here. The characters can be a bit thing but there is a certain magic to the pacing Hammett has, the way he advanced the story. Staccato? Sometimes. But it's an effective technique. Hard-boiled, vicious, unrelenting. Entertaining.
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