Friday, October 18, 2024
Recommended reading - The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon
Published by Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.
Paperback.
ISBN-13: 978-0679722649
“Hammett … wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before.” – Raymond Chandler.
Detective Sam Spade is a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. When his partner is killed during a stakeout, he is drawn into the hunt for a fantastic treasure with a dubious provenance – a golden bird encrusted with jewels. Also on the trail are a perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, an oversized adventurer named Gutman, and Spade’s new client Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime.
These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett’s coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted generations of readers.
“Hammett’s prose [is] clean and entirely unique. His characters [are] as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction.” – The New York Times.
Born on this day – Miriam Hopkins:
Born on this day – Johnny Temple:
Johnny Temple
Credits:
Albums:
Johnnie Temple 1935-1940: From Mississippi to Chicago (The Blues) (1997); Johnnie Temple Vol. 2 1938-1940 (2005); Johnnie Temple Vol. 3 1940-1949 (2005); Johnny Temple's Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out (2006); Lead Pencil Blues (2015); Presenting Johnnie Temple (1935); Vol. 1 1935-1938 (2005).
Songs:
Beale Street Sheik; Between
Midnight and Dawn; Big Boat Whistle; Big Leg Woman; Big Woman Blues; County
Jail Blues; East Saint Louis Blues; Every Dog Must Have His Day; Fare You Well;
Gimme Some of That Yum Yum Yum; Gonna Ride 74; Hoodoo Women; I Believe I'll Go
Downtown Again; Jacksonville Blues; Lead Pencil Blues; Louise Louise Blues;
Mama's Bad Luck Child; Mean Baby Blues; New Louise Louise Blues; New Vicksburg
Blues; Olds "98" Blues; Peeping Through The Keyhole; Pimple Blues;
Rhythm Mama; Snapping Cat; So Lonely And Blue; Something in the Moon That Gives
Me a Thrill; Stavin' Chain; The Evil Devil Blues; What Is It That Smells Like
Gravy?; Yum, Yum, Yum.
Born on this day – Inger Stevens:
Born on this day – Barbara Baldavin:
Born on this day – Dawn Wells:
Dawn Wells
On this day in movie history - The Doorway to Hell (1930)
The Doorway to Hell
On this day in movie history - The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Maltese Falcon
On this day in movie history - Exhibition on Screen: Hopper - An American Love Story (2022)
Exhibition on Screen: Hopper - An American Love Story
documentary directed by Phil
Grabsky,
was released in the United States on October 18, 2022.