Heaven help me, I agree with everything Jim has to say about
the Falcon
(though my gut feeling is that it's closer to 80% than 90% of
all PI novels that are told in the first person).
However, I wanted to add one thing to what Jim said:
"We're all so familiar with the book now, that the surprises
are vitiated, but there are, in fact, two major surprises at
the end."
Isn't it a testament to Hammett that we continue to read, and
re-read, this book even after we know all of the surprises,
even after some of them have been so copied as to become
cliches in the genre?
Mark
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