Twenty Writers: Dashiell Hammett, The Flitcraft Parable (from The Maltese Falcon)

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Edward Teller Dreams of Barbecuing People

Dashiell Hammett was a prodigious writer, but in the most lopsided kind of way. He wrote north of a hundred short stories in less than five years, grinding out new stories every month for an insatiable readership, the result of a workhorse work ethic the pulp magazin...