The Maltese Falcon
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Sam Spade, the woman
Rip's impressions
The original. Pure unadulterated pleasure. This mystery invented all the cliches still used in the crime genre. I read this when I was working in San Francisco. It was a rush going around town to be on the same street corners and alleys that the characters in the book found themselves in.
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Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth.
last lines
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Spade, looking down at his desk, nodded almost imperceptibly. ‘Yes,’ he said, and shivered. ‘Well, send her in.’
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