The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammetts classic tale of murder in Manhattan, became the popular movie series with William Powell and Myrna Loy, and both the movies and the novel continue to captivate new generations of fans. Nick and Nora Charles, accompanied by their schnauzer, Asta, are lounging in their suite at the Normandie in New […]
Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammetts archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandlers Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammetts Sam Spade novels (including The Dain Curse and The Glass Key), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the […]