choad wrote:

Smudge wrote:

(The Hammett stories look like great fun, choad!)

Hammett's meager output of novels and stories sing in a language entirely absent from screen adaptations of his work, which now seem dated and mannered.

My wife and I are eternally grateful for his novel The Thin Man which ending up launching six films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy.

I would chew off my arm for a week with Myrna Loy...