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Dashiell Hammett and the Movies

William H. Mooney

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As the father of the hardboiled detective genre, Dashiell Hammett had a huge influence on Hollywood....

The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

Nathan Ward

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A 2016 Edgar Award Nominee Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest...

The Far Side of the Dollar

Ross MacDonald

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In these three novels, written during a remarkable five-year period, Ross Macdonald elaborated on...

David McK (3425 KP) rated The Royalist (William Falkland #1) in Books

Apr 18, 2022

Set during the period of the English Civil Wars, I have to say that I found this to be rather unusual in that it is not about (per se) the wars themselves: rather, it is set in the New Model Army camp over a winter period, between hostilities, with William Falkland (the Royalist of the title) plucked from his prison cell by none other than Oliver Cromwell himself and sent to investigate reports of suicides/disturbances in the camp.

Reading very much like a ECW version of a whodunnit, with the author - in the afterword - not at all shy to point out the influences of the hard-boiled detective hero/film noir of the 40s (think Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler) on this work.