Books by Dashiell Hammett
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English
review 1: This collection is not as good as I was hoping, but perhaps I expect too much. There are some humorous moments in the dialogue for sure but the mystery plots themselves seem too contrived to be even remotely believable, and that is something that I cannot abide without disappoint...
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English
review 1: So, I guess that I'm glad I looked at these, but they aren't nearly as fun as I hoped they'd be. These aren't even really novellas, which is how they're sold in the blurbs. What they are is expanded treatments of the stories that would go on to be the movies "After the Thin Man" ...