A Hardboiled MacGuffin: The Maltese Falcon

from Between The Covers · host Jay Ruud and Stacey Margaret Jones

Jay shares with Stacey why he selected Dashiell Hammett’s classic detective novel The Maltese Falcon for his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language, and they continue their discussion from last week’s talk about the hardboiled detective novel and how Hammett helped create the genre. Chaos reader introduces Henry James to the chat.

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