This month's first Top Ten Tuesday prompt from That Artsy Reader Girl is "Top Ten Quick Reads/Novellas."  I am only counting ...

I have no memory of this book.  I KNOW I read all of Hammett's novels about twenty years ago.  But the title is the only familiar part a...

You may have noticed this book was in my sidebar for like three months.  That's because I was savoring it.  For three months?  Indeed.  ...

This was an enjoyable collection of short stories featuring Hammett's never-named detective, or operative, who works for the Continental...

I've seen the 1941 movie adaptation of The Maltese Falcon  probably nine or ten times.  And I've read this before, though not for li...

When I said I was going on a Dashiell Hammett kick, I meant it.  My goodness, I am enjoying his books!   I feel like, when I read this for t...

The first time I read this book, fifteenish years ago, I had no real idea who Alan Ladd was.  I definitely had not seen the 1942 version of...

After rereading Trouble is My Business  by Raymond Chandler last month, I began to crave more hardboiled detective stories of that same era....