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twilliamson 's review for:
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
It isn't wrong to call The Maltese Falcon the best detective novel ever written. It isn't wrong to call it one of the best-written stories of the 20th century. It isn't too far to suggest that it's a book everyone should read at least once in their lifetime. The book is just that damned good.
No writer can lay claim to being able to write as compactly, as complexly, or as thrillingly as Dashiell Hammett. He's a master at the craft, a storyteller with so much style and nuance that he almost literally exists in a league of his own.
I've said before that I don't even think The Maltese Falcon is his best book, but it's so good it doesn't even matter; it's a goddamn perfect piece of art, and that hasn't changed in almost 100 years.
And it probably won't.
No writer can lay claim to being able to write as compactly, as complexly, or as thrillingly as Dashiell Hammett. He's a master at the craft, a storyteller with so much style and nuance that he almost literally exists in a league of his own.
I've said before that I don't even think The Maltese Falcon is his best book, but it's so good it doesn't even matter; it's a goddamn perfect piece of art, and that hasn't changed in almost 100 years.
And it probably won't.