On The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, and The Killer Inside
Me: backgrounds
and discussion questions at this Vintage Books site:
<http://wwww.
timesbooks.com/vintage/read/blacklizard/>
On the novel and film, The Maltese Falcon: background and
discussion
activities at this Turner Classic Movie site, set up for
educators teaching
"novels into film."
<http://tcm.turner.com/by_the_book/falcon.htm>
[The latter suggests that it might be an interesting activity
to put Spade
on trial, to determine whether he violates contemporary
standards of sexual
harrassment. Uh, is there any doubt? What then?]
Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>
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