![]() ![]() Re-reading it on the train down to Grand Central, then finishing it on the train to Dundee, I knew why it had taken on such a magnetic pull. I was deciding which Hammett to use, going back and forth between Falcon and Thin Man when I considered whether to use this one instead. I’ve been trying to make the hard choices for the crime course in the spring (argh) and have finally made my peace with not trying to overstuff the reading list but to offer them a sort of gateway drug into the noirish side of crime. The Big Lebowski is more Chandlerian, but the love they have for the noirish grit is plain. ![]() Plus the Coen brothers swiped the title and concept for Blood Simple from the book and while Miller’s Crossing isn’t exactly an adaptation, it pulls a lot from this novel. ![]() The Maltese Falcon is just so good and I so adore The Thin Man and the films based on both those books, classics in their own right, too.Īnd no kidding, there are classic films associated with Red Harvest too - no less than Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars, too. I admit to not having the love for the Continental Op the first time I read those stories. “Forgotten by whom?” but I’d make an argument for Red Harvest very much being out of favour in the traditional canon of crime classics. ![]() I know, I know - when you suggest a classic author for FFB a lot of people will roll their eyes. ![]()
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