Fly Paper

story by Hammett

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hard-boiled fiction

  • The Maltese Falcon
    In hard-boiled fiction

    …first truly hard-boiled story, “Fly Paper,” appeared in Black Mask magazine in 1929. Combining his own experiences with the realistic influence of writers such as Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, Hammett created a uniquely American type of detective fiction that was separate and distinct from the traditional English…

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