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The Maltese Falcon
Title: The Maltese Falcon
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1383 | Pages: 5.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco:
A Unique Setting in the Changing World of Early 20th Century Detective Fiction
The Pacific coast port city of San Francisco, California provides a distinctively mysterious backdrop in Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon. Unlike many other detective stories that are anchored in well-known metropolises such as Los Angeles or New York City, Hammett opted to place the events of his text in the lesser-known, yet similarly exotic cultural confines …showed first 75 words of 1383 total…
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