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Recommended reading - The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories (1944)

 

The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories (1944).

By Dashiell Hammett.

 

Published by Must Have Books.

Paperback.

 

ISBN-10: 1773237772

ISBN-13: 978-1773237770

 

Description:

Sam Spade is the tall, tough, smart private detective made famous by Dashiell Hammett in his superb detective novel, The Maltese Falcon. His appearance in the three short stories which make up The Adventures of Sam Spade is good news for his admirers and even better news for those who have yet to meet him. As Sam says, “There ought to be a law making criminals give themselves up…” but since there isn’t one is better qualified than he to take the place of that law. He’s not a fictional detective, not given to elaborate analysis of the crime nor to elaborate restaging of it in front of all the suspects in the hope that one will break down; he’s an honest-to-God detective, astute and industrious enough to find out everything possible and then figure the angles from what he knows.

In addition to the three Adventures of Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett has included here four brilliant short stories, each one terse, masculine, and eminently readable, yet one different in theme and handling. The Assistant Murderer tells of a complicated case neatly solved by Alexander Rush, the detective who is so ugly that people just naturally think he is crooked. Night Shade is a vivid sketch with an O. Henry Ending. The Judge Laughed Last is a story so funny that you’ll be laughing even when the judge is through. And His Brother’s Keeper is a fine prize fight tale told by a tough, dumb, honest and likable fighter.

Contents: Too Many Have Lived; They Can Only Hang You Once; A Man Called Spade; The Assistant Murderer; Night Shade; The Judge Laughed Last; His Brother's Keeper.

P. D. James, on writing:

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us.

I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.

- P. D. James.

Born on this day – Sally Benson:

Writer

September 3, 1897 – July 19, 1972

Credits:

Short stories:

Emily (1938); Junior Miss (1941); Meet Me in St. Louis (1942); People Are Fascinating (1936); Stories of the Gods and Heroes (1940); Women and Children First (1943).

Movies and television:

Anna and the King of Siam (1946); Bus Stop (1961); Come to the Stable (1949); Conspirator (1949); Curtain Call (1952); General Electric Guest House (1951); Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (1958); Joy in the Morning (1965); Junior Miss (1945 / 1946); Little Women (1949); Lux Video Theatre (1955); Meet Me in St. Louis (1944 / 1959 / 1966); No Man of Her Own (1950); Occupation Housewife / Yrke: Hemmafru (1967); Shadow of a Doubt (1943 / 1991); Signpost to Murder (1964); Summer Magic (1963); The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953); The Singing Nun (1966); Viva Las Vegas (1964); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951).

Born on this day – Christiane Delyne:

Actress

September 3, 1902 – April 17, 1966

Born on this day – Lawrence Clark Powell:

Writer

Librarian

Bibliographer

September 3, 1906 – March 14, 2001

Credits:

Books:

A Passion for Books (1958); A Southwestern Century; Books in My Baggage (1960); California Classics: The Creative Literature of the Golden State (1971); Eucalyptus Fair (1992); Fortune & Friendship: An Autobiography (1968); Heart of the Southwest; Islands of Books; Land of Fiction; Life Goes On: Twenty More Years of Fortune and Friendship (1986); Philosopher Pickett; Photographs of the Southwest (1976) (with Ansel Adams); Robinson Jeffers, the Man and His Work; Southwestern Book Trails (1982); The Alchemy of Books (1954); The Blue Train (1977); The Little Package (1964); The Malibu (with W.W. Robinson); The Manuscripts of D.H. Lawrence; The River Between (1979); Winter Crossing 1952 - Travel Notes from a Bygone era (1986).

Born on this day – Lisette Lanvin:

Actress

September 3, 1913 – July 27, 2004

Born on this day – Alan Ladd:

Actor

Producer

September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964

Born on this day – Helen Wagner:

 

Actress

September 3, 1918 – May 1, 2010

Credits:

50 Years of Soaps: An All-Star Celebration (1994); A Closer Look (1991); As the World Turns (1956–2010); As the World Turns (2010); Donahue (1985); Guiding Light (1952–1953); Hallmark Hall of Fame (1952); Inner Sanctum (1954); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1951–1954); Lamp Unto My Feet (1951); Mister Peepers (1953); SoapTalk (2006); Starlight Theatre (1951); The 31st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2004); The 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2006); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2004); The Kate Smith Hour (1954); The Web (1950–1951); The World of Mr. Sweeney (1954–1955); Valiant Lady (1953–1957).

Born on this day – Ruth Orkin:

Photographer

Writer

Director

September 3, 1921 – January 16, 1985

Credits:

Books: 

A Photo Journal (1981); A World Through My Window (1978); More Pictures from My Window (1983); Outside-Morris Engel Ruth Orkin, From Street Photography to Filmmaking (2014); Ruth Orkin (2023); Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit (2021); Ruth Orkin: Above and Beyond (1999); Ruth Orkin: American Girl in Italy The Making of a Classic (2005); Ruth Orkin: Bike Trip (2023); Ruth Orkin: ICP Exhibition (1995); Ruth Orkin: Photo Posch (2023); Ruth Orkin: Women (2023).

Movies and television:

Little Fugitive (1953 / 2006); Lovers and Lollipops (1956); Lunch Money (2010); Morris Engel Home Movies (2021); Morris Engel: The Independent (2008); Ruth Orkin: Frames of Life (1996); Something's Gotta Give (2003); The Dog Lover (1962).

Born on this day – Anne Jackson:

 

Actress

September 3, 1925 – April 12, 2016

Born on this day – Irene Papas:

Actress

Singer

September 3, 1926 – September 14, 2022

Born on this day – Eileen Brennan:

Actress

September 3, 1932 – July 28, 2013

On this day in movie history: White Heat (1949)

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directed by Raoul Walsh,

written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts,

based on a story by Virginia Kellogg,

was released in the United States on September 3, 1949.

Music by Max Steiner.

Cast:
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran, John Archer, Wally Cassell, Fred Clark, G. Pat Collins, Paul Guilfoyle, Ian MacDonald, Robert Osterloh, Ford Rainey, Aline Towne, Jim Thorpe.

On this day in movie history: Private Hell 36 (1953)

Private Hell 36

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directed by Don Siegel and written by Collier Young and Ida Lupino,

was released in the United States on September 3, 1953.

Music by Leith Stevens.

Cast:

Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Dean Jagger, Dorothy Malone, James Anderson, William Boyett, Chester Conklin, Richard Deacon, George Dockstader, King Donovan, Bridget Duff, Dabbs Greer, Jerry Hausner, Jimmy Hawkins, Tom Monroe, Chris O'Brien, Kenneth Patterson, Sammy Shack.

On this day in movie history: Down Three Dark Streets (1954)

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directed by Arnold Laven,

written by Gordon Gordon and Bernard C. Schonefeld,

based on the novel Case File: FBI by Mildred Gordon,

was released in the United States on September 3, 1954.

Music by Paul Sawtell.

 

Cast:

Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer, Marisa Pavan, Max Showalter, Kenneth Tobey, Gene Reynolds, William Johnstone, Harlan Warde, Jay Adler, Claude Akins, Suzanne Alexander, Myra Marsh, Joe Basselt, William Schallert.

On this day in movie history: Kalifornia (1993)

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directed by Dominic Sena,

written by Tim Metcalfe,

based on a story by Stephen Levy and Tim Metcalfe,

was released in the United States on September 3, 1993.

Music by Carter Burwell.

Cast:

Brad Pitt, Kathy Larson, David Milford, David Duchovny, John Zarchen, David Rose, Michelle Forbes, Tommy Chappelle, Juliette Lewis, Judson Vaughn, James Michael McDougal, Patricia Sill, Brett Rice, Marisa Raper, Bill Crabb, Mary Ann Hagan, Jerry G. White, Sarah Sullivan, Eric Stenson, Mars Callahan, Patricia Hunte, Loanne Bishop, Ron Kuhlman, Sierra Pecheur, John Dullaghan, David Feigenbaum, Tom Hand, Shelby Hofer, Patricia Tallman.

On this day in movie history - The Wharf Rat (1995)

 

The Wharf Rat

directed by Jimmy Huston,

written by Paul Kimatian and Jimmy Huston,

was released in the United States on September 3, 1995.

Music by Mervyn Warren.

Cast:

Lou Diamond Phillips, Rachel Ticotin, Judge Reinhold, Scott Cohen, Rita Moreno, William Dunlop, Alan Vint, Paul Willson, Peter Radon, Loren Farmer, Wilfred Bray, Steven Randazzo, Beau Starr, Thoywell Hemmings, Jude Coffey, Rusty Ryan, Stephen Jackson, Yank Azman, Desmond Campbell, Jean-Luc Côté, Scott Wickware, Nicole Farmer, Ray Paisley, Don De Fina, Richard Blackburn, Jeff Christensen, Shawn Lawrence, Chris Peterson, J.J. Murray, Danny White.

On this day in movie history - The Wharf Rat (1995)

The Wharf Rat

directed by Jimmy Huston,

written by Paul Kimatian and Jimmy Huston,

was released in the United States on September 3, 1995.

Music by Mervyn Warren.

Cast:
Lou Diamond Phillips, Rachel Ticotin, Judge Reinhold, Scott Cohen, Rita Moreno, William Dunlop, Alan Vint, Paul Willson, Peter Radon, Loren Farmer, Wilfred Bray, Steven Randazzo, Beau Starr, Thoywell Hemmings, Jude Coffey, Rusty Ryan, Stephen Jackson, Yank Azman, Desmond Campbell, Jean-Luc Côté, Scott Wickware, Nicole Farmer, Ray Paisley, Don De Fina, Richard Blackburn, Jeff Christensen, Shawn Lawrence, Chris Peterson, J.J. Murray, Danny White.