How Sam Spade Came to Be Hard-Boiled, Part 2 (more on The Maltese Falcon)

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Here is Part 2 of our encore presentation of Kathy Owen’s excellent posts on hard-boiled crime fiction and specifically The Maltese Falcon.

Hi!  K.B. Owen here again, with the rest of the story behind The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett.  If you missed Part 1, click here.  Thanks for joining me today!

Dashiell Hammett’s life was more important to his work than is usual with an author.  Hammett was the first detective (a Pinkerton) to write detective novels, and is co...