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Dashiell Hammett
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The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
Hammett's lean masterpiece gives us Sam Spade, a black bird worth killing for, and a femme fatale you can't trust for a sentence. The original hardboiled detective novel, and still the sharpest.