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The Maltese Falcon

  • Writer: Kathy Miller
    Kathy Miller
  • Sep 7, 2025
  • 1 min read

Dashiell Hammett, 1929

Date read: 9/7/25


I enjoyed this much more than I imagined I would! Dark, brooding, hard-nosed detective novels have never been my thing (The Big Sleep being the first I ever read in the genre). It was hoaky and melodramatic, and Sam is just terrible to women, but the novel was a lot of fun. Especially, trying to figure out who did what to whom. Loved it!

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