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...Think of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Josephine Tey, James M Cain, Richard Stark, Pascal Garnier — think of Georges Simenon! Let me make an essential distinction....
...Falcon is one of Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco novels)....
...Of course, now nobody knows who Robert Morris is, and you can’t get a ticket to the Richard Rodgers Theatre to go see Hamilton. What happened?...
...Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon are also recognised as classic collectors’ items. Then there are Ian Fleming’s James Bond books....
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