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Book cover for The Maltese Falcon
“You will please stand,” the man with the pistol instructed him at whose thick chest the pistol was aimed.
Tom Quinn
Snicker. Read for speed, not beauty. Cinematic lit? First gen of page-to-screen possibilities?
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only he didn't say "doggone.”
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