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Humphrey Bogart

How Sam Spade Came to Be Hard-Boiled, Part 2

Hi! K.B. Owen here again, with the rest of the story behind The Maltese Falcon. If you missed Part 1, click here. Thanks for joining me today! Samuel Dashiell Hammett: 1894-1961 Hammett’s…

October 7, 2013

poster fior the 1941 film of The Maltese Falcon

How Sam Spade Came to Be Hard-Boiled, Part 1

Hi, K.B. Owen here, to talk about the “hard-boiled” detective story subgenre and one of my favorite examples of that style, The Maltese Falcon. (Yes, I’m fully embracing the irony of a…

September 30, 2013

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