#dashiellhammett — Public Fediverse posts

If you haven’t read Dashiell Hammett, he defined the hard boiled detective genre. Most of his work is public domain now.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dashiell-hammett/the-maltese-falcon

#Reading #Noir #HardBoiled #Detective #DashiellHammett #MalteseFalcon #PublicDomain

John's Grill, where Sam Spade ate a dinner of "chops, baked potato, and sliced tomatoes" in THE MALTESE FALCON

#foto #fotografie #photo #photography #street #streetphotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #sanfrancisco #dashiellhammett #samspade #themaltesefalcon

Did I mention this yet? Don't miss the exciting new conclusion to THE MALTESE FALCON:

https://www.eclectica.org/v29n3/coggins.html

@bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #ReadingCommunity #noir #thriller #sanfrancisco #dashiellhammett #maltesefalcon #samspade #booksky

started a #wikipedia article on @brynmawrcollege alumna, actress, and screenwriter, Frances Prussing LeVino (1890-1944): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Prussing @wikiwomeninred @wikipedia_la #GretaGarbo #DashiellHammett @moviessilently

The funny part about reading stories from the prohibition era, is they almost always are drinking like it isn’t the prohibition era.

Only occasionally does the illegality actually come up. Been reading a collection of early Dashiell Hammett, and it only just dawned on me that the entire collection was written during prohibition.

#Reading #Gumshoe #HardBoiled #Hammett #DashiellHammett #Detective #ContinentalOp

San Francisco is always billed as Dashiell Hammett's town, but did you know that fellow hard-boiled master Raymond Chandler lived there first?

Check out my little piece on the unexpected experience they had in common during their time in the city on crime fiction blog The Rap Sheet:

https://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/02/whose-town-is-it-anyway.html

#raymondchandler #dashiellhammett #hammett #chandler #AmReading @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #noir #thriller

Spade & Archer in color

#foto #fotografie #photo #photography #stilllife #stilllifephotography #dashiellhammett #hammett #maltesefalcon #sanfrancisco #fensterfreitag #windowfriday #night #nightphotography

Lots of cool stuff entered the public domain this year.

I particularly love Red Harvest and Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.

And Pandora’s Box, another fantastic silent film.

Always worth looking at the list:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/

#PublicDomain #Hammett #DashiellHammett #PandorasBox

Good Books Now In The Public Domain

In addition to being the first day of the New Year, January 1 is also known as Public Domain Day, when titles previously under copyright enter the public domain in many countries, including the U.S.

This year’s titles include a host of good books by some authors you might have heard of including William Faulkner, Earnest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton and Mahatma Gandhi among others.

Standard EBOOKS is celebrating by providing links to twenty of the titles available to download in different formats that should work with most ebook readers.

These book titles, were first published in 1929. I won’t get into the length of copyrights and all the issues surrounding that, but instead say this is an interesting collection of works, some early or first works by some of the authors listed above.

Keep in mind that on Public Domain Day a number of titles in other media also entered the public domain. Duke University publishes a more extensive, but not complete list that includes titles of plays, movies, characters, music compositions, art,  and sound recordings. The date for sound recordings is 1924 and includes Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin.

You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. 

#books #copyright #DashiellHammett #EdithWharton #JohnSteinbeck #PublicDomainDay #publicDomain #SinclairLewis #ThomasWolfe #WilliamFaulkner #Writing

Good Books Now In The Public Domain

In addition to being the first day of the New Year, January 1 is also known as Public Domain Day, when titles previously under copyright enter the public domain in many countries, including the U.S.

This year’s titles include a host of good books by some authors you might have heard of including William Faulkner, Earnest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton and Mahatma Gandhi among others.

Standard EBOOKS is celebrating by providing links to twenty of the titles available to download in different formats that should work with most ebook readers.

These book titles, were first published in 1929. I won’t get into the length of copyrights and all the issues surrounding that, but instead say this is an interesting collection of works, some early or first works by some of the authors listed above.

Keep in mind that on Public Domain Day a number of titles in other media also entered the public domain. Duke University publishes a more extensive, but not complete list that includes titles of plays, movies, characters, music compositions, art,  and sound recordings. The date for sound recordings is 1924 and includes Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin.

You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. 

#books #copyright #DashiellHammett #EdithWharton #JohnSteinbeck #PublicDomainDay #publicDomain #SinclairLewis #ThomasWolfe #WilliamFaulkner #Writing

Good Books Now In The Public Domain

In addition to being the first day of the New Year, January 1 is also known as Public Domain Day, when titles previously under copyright enter the public domain in many countries, including the U.S.

This year’s titles include a host of good books by some authors you might have heard of including William Faulkner, Earnest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton and Mahatma Gandhi among others.

Standard EBOOKS is celebrating by providing links to twenty of the titles available to download in different formats that should work with most ebook readers.

These book titles, were first published in 1929. I won’t get into the length of copyrights and all the issues surrounding that, but instead say this is an interesting collection of works, some early or first works by some of the authors listed above.

Keep in mind that on Public Domain Day a number of titles in other media also entered the public domain. Duke University publishes a more extensive, but not complete list that includes titles of plays, movies, characters, music compositions, art,  and sound recordings. The date for sound recordings is 1924 and includes Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin.

You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. 

#books #copyright #DashiellHammett #EdithWharton #JohnSteinbeck #PublicDomainDay #publicDomain #SinclairLewis #ThomasWolfe #WilliamFaulkner #Writing

Good Books Now In The Public Domain

In addition to being the first day of the New Year, January 1 is also known as Public Domain Day, when titles previously under copyright enter the public domain in many countries, including the U.S.

This year’s titles include a host of good books by some authors you might have heard of including William Faulkner, Earnest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton and Mahatma Gandhi among others.

Standard EBOOKS is celebrating by providing links to twenty of the titles available to download in different formats that should work with most ebook readers.

These book titles, were first published in 1929. I won’t get into the length of copyrights and all the issues surrounding that, but instead say this is an interesting collection of works, some early or first works by some of the authors listed above.

Keep in mind that on Public Domain Day a number of titles in other media also entered the public domain. Duke University publishes a more extensive, but not complete list that includes titles of plays, movies, characters, music compositions, art,  and sound recordings. The date for sound recordings is 1924 and includes Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin.

You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. 

#books #copyright #DashiellHammett #EdithWharton #JohnSteinbeck #PublicDomainDay #publicDomain #SinclairLewis #ThomasWolfe #WilliamFaulkner #Writing

Just finished watching the 6-part mini-series, Monsieur Spade. As a massive fan of Dashiell Hammett's work, I went in feeling pretty sceptical. But it won me over fairly quickly and in the end I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. Well worth a watch.

Trigger warnings for violence and a scene of implied sexual assault though.

#MonsieurSpade #DashiellHammett #SamSpade

Ok. I have questions.

#TheMalteseFalcon #DashiellHammett #Literature #Noir #WTF #AncientLiterature #MedievalLiterature

3 things about W.S. Van Dyke’s THE THIN MAN [1934]

1. Frying pan juggler.
2. She discreetly adjusts her hot water bottle headpiece.
3. “Gosh, darling, I thought they’d never leave.”
Cut to a different bedroom.
“I thought you’d never leave.”

#3things #Christmas #christmasmovies #dashiellhammett #movies #thethinman #cinemastodon

I've made it to Chapters Indigo! Big day for an indie writer.

#canada #toronto #ontario #GTA #murder #sinister #shadows #neonoir #crime #criminology #psychological #psychologicalthriller #Murderthriller #suspense #suspenseful #suspensethriller #action #adventure #mystery #shortstories #patriciahighsmith #alfredhitchcock #raymondchandler #DashiellHammett #agathachristie #detective #riddle #solving #solve #puzzle #murderer #heist #kidnapping #blood #amazon #kindle #bloggers #indieauthor #indie

Today's bargains - especially the Jim Thompson book which I got for a LOT less than it normally goes for.

#Noir #HardBoiled #Crime #Books #RaymondChandler #DashiellHammett #Detective #JimThompson #Books

@bookstodon

Is Roy del Ruth's 1931 precode version of The Maltese Falcon better than John Huston's celebrated 1941 remake? I think it is, although I like both.

Ricardo Cortez is a better Sam Spade than Bogart, and Bebe Daniels is definitely better than Mary Astor.

With its cheerful immorality the '31 version is closer in spirit to Hammett's novel.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2022/12/roy-del-ruths-maltese-falcon-1931.html

#BebeDaniels #SamSpade #classicmovies #precodemovies #PreCodeHollywood #precode #RicardoCortez #filmnoir #dashiellhammett