Maltese Falcon Read-Alikes
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Classics
Double Indemnity Cain, James M. 1935. (Fiction Cain)
The Postman Always Rings Twice Cain, James M. 1934. (Fiction Cain)
The Big Sleep Chandler, Raymond. 1939. (Mystery Chandler)
The Long Goodbye Chandler, Raymond. 1954. (Mystery Chandler)
The Big Clock Fearing, Kenneth. 1946. (Mystery Fearing)
Red Harvest Hammett, Dashiell. 1929. (Mystery Hammett)
The Thin Man Hammett, Dashiell. 1934. (Mystery Hammett)
Strangers on a Train Highsmith, Patricia. 1950. (Mystery Highsmith)
In a Lonely Place Hughes, Dorothy B. 1947. (Fiction Hughes)
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman James, P. D. 1972. (Mystery James)
The Chill Macdonald, Ross. 1964. (Mystery Macdonald)
The Drowning Pool Macdonald, Ross. 1950. (Mystery Macdonald)
Over My Dead Body Stout, Rex. 1940. (Mystery pbk)
The Grifters Thompson, Jim. 1963. (Mystery Thompson)
The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: I Married a Dead Man, Waltz into Darkness, Rear Window and Other Stories Woolrich, Cornell. 1998. (Mystery Woolrich)
Collections, etc.
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps edited by Otto Penzler (813.0872 B561 2007)
The Classic Era of Crime Fiction Peter Haining (809.3872 H127c)
Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian (Mystery Hard)
Los Angeles Noir edited by Denise Hamilton (813.087208 L896)
Plots With Guns: A Noir Anthology edited by Anthony Neil Smith (Mystery Plots)
San Francisco Noir edited by Peter Maravelis (Mystery San Francisco)
San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics edited by Peter Maravelis (813.087208 Sa57s)
Suggested Current Authors
Web Resources
The Adventures of Sam Spade - Episodes of the old time radio show available for download or MP3 streaming.
Black Mask Magazine - The classic pulp magazine where The Maltese Falcon first appeared.
The Simple Art of Murder - Raymond Chandler's manifesto, published in The Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1945.









