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To: Domandred

Featuring the Continental Op, the original Man With No Name. Hammett really is the starting point of the American style of crime fiction. He pretty much invented “hard boiled.”


32 posted on 09/03/2009 6:34:17 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

I just pulled Red Harvest off the shelf last month and read it for the fourth or fifth time. Always a good read every three years or so.


36 posted on 09/03/2009 6:58:40 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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