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A fine detective story beautifully written.

Nick and Nora Charles. Asta the Schnauzer. Beautiful daughters, high strung inventors, gigolos, Irish cops, Scotch and .32s. I adored The Maltese Falcon as a book and in the unusually high fidelity of the perfect movie. (See it if you’ve never.)

This is pitch perfect film noir. I will have to read more Hammett, who was after all, at one time a Pinkerton detective.