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Second Esdras 15:54
Beautify your face! If the first half of The Glass Key‘s film adaptation was scattered, deflated, & flat as week-old Dr. Pepper, then Pt. II was the epitome of each of these expressions. The characters, hard-boiled & run-down in the … Continue reading
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? The subtle excitement & foggy-headed camera lens that made The Glass Key such an enthralling novel was for some reason traded in for cliche Hollywood romance … Continue reading
Sirach 40:13
The wealth of the unjust will dry up like a river, and crash like a loud clap of thunder in a storm Hammett’s The Glass Key is an inquisitive, frustrating, claustrophobic, & catatonic novel, in its writing style, character etchings, … Continue reading