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"The Maltese Falcon" finally became available for the Kindle. While reading it, Bogart's voice was in my head intoning the narrative "voice-overs" -- an enjoyable read, but if you want to grasp all the innuendos, you'll need to look up a lot of slang terms. An engaging fast read up till the end - which dragged a lot as Sam & the fat man wrangled over how to end the fiasco of the black bird.
Then I read "The Thin Man" - if you didn't know better, you wouldn't realize they were both penned by Dashiell Hammett - what a different style/tone/narrative voice. Poor Nora didn't get many lines.
Hard to pull off both noir and high society comedy.
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