Of the 20th century as well as 54th on The Guardian’s list of the Ranked 56th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels Today, the movie is considered a film noir classic and the novel is Versions) excised the homosexual subtext of the novel due to Production Code Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor (the best known of the novel’s three film However, the 1941 film adaptation starring Overt sexuality of the magazine version, fearing the references would alienate Mencken’s “pulp” magazine, Black Mask, beginning with the September 1929 issue.įor publication of the book form, editor Blanche Knopf tried to tone down the The Maltese Falcon was originally serialized in HL Reportedly drew upon his years as a detective in creating Spade and many of the Worked for a time for the Pinkerton Detective Agency in San Francisco, Hammett Private detective Sam Spade, who characterizes the archetype of the hard-boiledĭetective in his dead-pan pursuit of the recovery of a black figurine. Set in San Francisco in the late 1920s, the novel introduces us to Third novel, set the standard by which all subsequent detective fiction wouldīe judged. The Maltese Falcon, author Dashiell Hammett’s
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