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Well, there are the drugs, the paranoia, the sex, the attitude and the humor. Other than that, Thomas Pynchon -- with his latest novel, Inherent Vice -- is having a great time expertly channeling the hard-boiled detective riffs of Raymond Chandler and
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Chicago Sun-Times
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/books/1705965,SHO-Books-pynchon09.article
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Ross Macdonald's heyday was in the early 1950s and late 1970s, when he was constantly compared to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. These three were called "the holy trinity of American crime writers", and Paul Newman starred in film adaptations
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/01/ross-macdonald-crime-novels
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...and persistent battles with the IRS led to him dying destitute and alone in 1951. That last one might actually be Dashiell Hammett, now that we think about it, but that’s what you get for believing absolutely everything you read on the internet, which is...
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Another Thin Man (1939) Based on the writings of Dashiell Hammett Starring William Powell and Myrna Loy Directed by: WS Van Dyke Distributed by: MGM Studios NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT INTENDED ... william powell another thin man nyrna loy asta mystery nick charles nora
Another Thin Man (1939) Based on the writings of Dashiell Hammett Starring William Powell and Myrna Loy Directed by: WS Van Dyke Distributed by: MGM Studios NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT INTENDED ... nora charles nick another thin man myrna loy william powell asta mystery
Another Thin Man (1939) Based on the writings of Dashiell Hammett Starring William Powell and Myrna Loy Directed by: WS Van Dyke Distributed by: MGM Studios NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT INTENDED ... myrna loy nick charles nora asta mystery william powell another thin man
Another Thin Man (1939) Based on the writings of Dashiell Hammett Starring William Powell and Myrna Loy Directed by: WS Van Dyke Distributed by: MGM Studios NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT INTENDED ... nora charles nick asta william powell myrna loy mystery another thin man
Another Thin Man (1939) Based on the writings of Dashiell Hammett Starring William Powell and Myrna Loy Directed by: WS Van Dyke Distributed by: MGM Studios NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT INTENDED ... another thin man william powell nick charles myrna loy nora asta mystery
Another Thin Man (1939) Based on the writings of Dashiell Hammett Starring William Powell and Myrna Loy Directed by: WS Van Dyke Distributed by: MGM Studios NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT INTENDED ... another thin man william powell myrna loy nick charles nora asta
Another Thin Man (1939) Based on the writings of Dashiell Hammett Starring William Powell and Myrna Loy Directed by: WS Van Dyke Distributed by: MGM Studios NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT INTENDED ... another thin man nick charles nora myrna loy william powell
Another Thin Man (1939) Based on the writings of Dashiell Hammett Starring William Powell and Myrna Loy Directed by: WS Van Dyke Distributed by: MGM Studios NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT INTENDED ... another thin man myrna loy william powell nora charles nick
Another Thin Man (1939) Based on the writings of Dashiell Hammett Starring William Powell and Myrna Loy Directed by: WS Van Dyke Distributed by: MGM Studios NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT INTENDED ... another thin man nick charles nora myrna loy william powell
Another Thin Man (1939) Based on the writings of Dashiell Hammett Starring William Powell and Myrna Loy Directed by: WS Van Dyke Distributed by: MGM Studios NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT INTENDED ... another thin man william powell myrna loy nick charles nora
Another Thin Man (1939) Based on the writings of Dashiell Hammett Starring William Powell and Myrna Loy Directed by: WS Van Dyke Distributed by: MGM Studios NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED My personal favorite of the series. ... another thin man william powell myrna loy nick charles nora asta
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him to the Capital and let him get a good look at this year's budget morass. He can stay at The Citizen, a new boutique hotel in Sacramento.
Details: 9
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Contra Costa Times
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If Elmore Leonard is the successor to hard-boiled detective novelists like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, who will his heir apparent be?
"Obviously Michael Connelly and George Pelecanos can be," John Evans, owner of Lemuria Bookstore, said of
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The Clarion-Ledger
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20090615/NEWS/906150314/1001/RSS01
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True, you paradoxically must be caged in the smoking area in order to enjoy fresh air at Rye, but the surroundings -- a little bit Dashiell Hammett, a little bit …
Tenderloin -- are superb, and will likely push you to gimlet
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Gridskipper
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The biggest misconception about noir, both in its cinematic and literary iterations, is that it’s a genre. Certain traits unite the disparate works that fall under this title, but noir has always been more of a sensibility than a strictly defined
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Splice Today
http://www.splicetoday.com/writing/blood-simple
) Written by Dashiell Hammett (novel) John Huston Starring Humphrey Bogart Mary Astor Peter Lorre Sydney Greenstreet Music by Adolph Deutsch Cinematography Arthur Edeson Editing by Thomas Richards Distributed by Warner Bros. Release date(s) October 3, 1941 Running time: 101 minutes Country: United States Language: English The Maltese Falcon is an American 1941 Warner Bros. film based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. Written and directed by John Huston, the movie stars ...
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Today (May 27) marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of the great hardboiled crime novelist Dashiell Hammett, whose books came to the screen in the "Thin Man" movies (a series close to my heart), "The Glass Key" and "The Maltese Falcon." Hammett,
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The Seattle Times
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French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894), American short story writer and novelist John Cheever (1912), American novelist and playwright Herman Wouk (1915), American novelist John Barth (1930), American mystery novelist Dashiell Hammett (1894),
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Syracuse.com
http://blog.syracuse.com/shelflife/2009/05/writers_born_this_day_john_bar.html
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With its central location on lively Powell Street, the Hotel Union Square makes a handy base for a weekend of marathon shopping, exploring mystery writer Dashiell Hammett's old stomping grounds, perusing art galleries, partaking in a fine meal or
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Karen Quincy Loberg / Star staff
Drake Escrofani, whose given first name is Dashiel after “The Maltese Falcon” author Dashiell Hammett, has had high-flying success as a diver at Rio Mesa, winning the CIF-SS title. He will compete at the Masters meet
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Ventura County Star
http://venturacountystar.com/news/2009/may/19/diving-right-in/?partner=RSS
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After his National Book Award-winning “Tree of Smoke,” novelist Denis Johnson has branched out in an entirely new direction. In “Nobody Move,” he channels Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Elmore Leonard in a deliciously dark noir, featuring a
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San Diego Union Tribune
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/may/10/1v10johnson221136/?books
his sheepdog ORION every morning. From Venice, California to Zurich, Switzerland, this multi-layered story depicts three disparate couples, whose lives are unknowingly intertwined by the brutal murders of a vicious psychopath. Narration: ANDY RAWN Agent & Publisher Inquires: (310) 454-9993 ... mystery Iris Johansen suspense Sherlock Holmes crime drama Ellery Queen novel Dashiell Hammett fiction Matt Damon thriller Robert Ludlom Julia Stiles James Patterson Clive Owen Sydney Sheldon Agatha ...
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THE LONG and fruitless relationship between EnCap and North Jersey fizzled out this week, and frankly, it feels good to have it over.
On Monday, EnCap Golf Holdings sent a letter to the state Meadowlands Commission acknowledging as officially dead the
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Step into the Harold Golen Gallery and you can almost smell the stinging scent of cordite perfuming the air.
Peeking out from behind flower-patterned curtains, a heartless blonde in a sheer black negligee levels her gun at your head.
It's a scene that
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Miami New Times
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2009-04-16/culture/richie-fahey-s-new-photography-exhibit-at-harold-golen-gallery
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Dashiell Hammett is having a busy year for a guy who's been pushing up daisies since 1961.
In February, Joe Gores
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TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times
http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/article992246.ece
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In "Spade & Archer," Joe Gores, a three-time Edgar winner, resuscitates Sam Spade, the tough, wily and complex hero of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 hardboiled classic, "The Maltese Falcon."
Gores spans the years 1921 to 1928, during which Spade quits his
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NJ.com
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2009/04/books_the_story_of_sam_spades.html
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Published: Friday, April 10, 2009
Readers from Edmonds to Camano Island will soon crack open "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett as part of Snohomish and Island County's first "Big Read" event.
Sno-Isle
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“The streets were dark with something more than night.” - Raymond Chandler
Erle Stanley Gardner once said of Carroll John Daly (1889-1958), the originator — even predating Dashiell Hammett by a few months in Black Mask magazine — of the hard-boiled
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From falling beams a philosophy emerges: episode from the novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.
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A wealth of neurologically impaired detectives have found a happy home in crime fiction. We've had detectives with synesthesia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette's syndrome, and now narcolepsy. PI Mark Genevich struggles to stay awake as he walks
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/03/29/the_curious_cases_of_the_sleepy_detectives?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Today%27s+paper+A+to+Z
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May 6, 2001
By DICK LOCHTE, Dick Lochte writes the regular "Mysteries" column for Southern California Living
"Hammett was the ace performer," wrote Raymond Chandler in his frequently quoted 1944 essay, "The Simple Art of Murder." "He did over and over
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of filmmaking technology and societal changes, it's somewhat comforting and instructional to see that quality modern productions involving the confidence game vary so little from their predecessors. Some ingredients remain constant in successful films: script, direction, acting, along with such "old fashioned" elements as editing, lighting and score. Computer generated imagery, high-resolution digital projection, and Imax cinemas matter little when the point is the exploration of ...
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those less attuned to Hammett's writing and more to the "Falcon" movie, you can hear the voice of Humphrey Bogart when you read Spade's dialogue in the book.
Joe Gores, author of "Spade and Archer" signs copies of "Maltese Falcon"
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Contra Costa Times
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those less attuned to Hammett's writing and more to the "Falcon" movie, you can hear the voice of Humphrey Bogart when you read Spade's dialogue in the book.
Joe Gores, author of "Spade and Archer" signs copies of "Maltese Falcon"
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signing at Green Apple Books, San Francisco" rather than "Thursday, Mar. 19, 7:00 p.m., book launch party with lecture and signing at Green Apple Books, San Francisco" as originally issued. Complete corrected text
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/correction-new-guidebook-celebrates-r1119353.htm
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2009-03-16 20:10:04 -
signing at Green Apple Books, San Francisco" rather than "Thursday, Mar. 19, 7:00 p.m., book launch party with lecture and signing at Green Apple Books, San Francisco" as originally issued. Complete corrected text
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March 16, 2009 3:06 PM EDT
-- See every known place where Hammett lived in San Francisco.
-- Visit the majority of settings from "The Maltese Falcon."
-- Follow Hammett himself as he works for the Pinkerton's Detective
Agency on the infamous Fatty
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Street Insider
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Synopsis: Think of the hard-boiled world of film noir: the world of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, a world of femme fatales, a world of shadows. Now imagine this world populated with characters from tragic...
Think of the hard-boiled world of film
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Rotten Tomatoes: Movies
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/perfect_sleep/
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Breathing new life into an iconic character created by a long-dead author is a risky business that requires both skill and daring.
John Gardner pulled it off rather nicely with Ian Fleming’s 007, but Robert Parker’s attempt to resurrect Raymond
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another tome by a guy who sleeps in a crystal pyramid with a huge bottle of pepper spray he uses to protect himself from the monster under the bed.
"Spade & Archer — The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon" by Joe Gores. (Alfred A Knopf, $
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Contra Costa Times
http://www.contracostatimes.com/books/ci_11897315?source=rss
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When considering darkly comic noirs like “Get Shorty” (1995) and “Out of Sight” (1998), or the bleak futuristic thriller “Minority Report” (2002), one could envision a haunted, brooding writer comfortable only in a seedy dive bar. But screenwriter
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Hollywood.com
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Ambitiously described as Dashiell Hammett meets Dostoevsky, THE PERFECT SLEEP follows an assassin who returns to a city after a decade to risk his life for a dame. (It's the supersexy Roselyn Sanchez, so... understandable.)
The intriguing noir indie
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JoBlo.com
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Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism
Hervé This. Columbia, $19.95 (152p) ISBN 9780231144667
French chemist This, co-creator (with fellow scientist Nicholas Kurti) of the kitchen science discipline known
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Publishers Weekly
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Want an all-American literary form that celebrates the individual and confronts that endless tension between
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He was the original hard-boiled private eye, forever immortalized on film by Humphrey Bogart.
But before Sam Spade was a movie
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