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The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a shoit, he didn't think anythin...

Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery ...

This cornerstone of hard-boiled detective fiction follows private investigator Sam Spade as a seemingly routine missing persons case spirals into a...