7: When a Man's Partner Is Killed (Several Times)

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Sep 26, 201696:48Arts

The Maltese Falcon is one of the noir books that defined the genre. But the first try at making this spare, grim book about a fancy bird into a novel didn’t take. Nor did the second. The third is the one we all recall, w...

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