This past January, Turner Classic Movies jumped on the bandwagon with a designated Dashiell Hammett day. Parker) and, for the beginner, "Vintage Hammett," an anthology of stories and selections from his major novels. This month, Vintage Books is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the classic American detective novel "The Maltese Falcon." Vintage is also reprinting several other Hammett titles, including a collection of his best pulp stories, "Nightmare Town" a short novel, "Woman in the Dark" (with an introduction by one of the most popular inheritors of the Hammett tradition, Robert B. A quick perusal of serious crime writers in any bookstore reveals his illegitimate children - James Ellroy, the Mexican novelist Paco Ignacio Taibo, the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, even the cyber-punk icon William Gibson.
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