In his second-most-famous Sherlock Holmes novel, “A Study in Scarlet” (1887), Arthur Conan Doyle branches into a Western for a while. And in his most
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Dashiell Hammett’s five novels suggest that his writing career went in reverse. He did two experimental novels first – the almost stream-of-consciousness plotting of “Red
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When a novel, play or short story becomes an Alfred Hitchcock film, it gets promoted in prestige but demoted in the public consciousness to “source
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I generally don’t like getting into the nitty-gritty of political gamesmanship, but such is the writing skill of Dashiell Hammett and the appeal of his
John Green does a magnificent job of getting into the head of a teen girl with mental-health struggles in “Turtles All the Way Down” (2017,
“Earthlings” (2018) so effectively skews and skewers a readers’ idea of right and wrong that by the end we’re wondering whether theft, incest and murder
The farther back in time I go with a throwback review, the more awkward it becomes as I must acknowledge a work’s place in history