Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Falcon is snared mid-bite...
Even zealots occasionally have second thoughts. Carter forgot to store several pages of his memoirs and lost them from his Lanier "No Problem." Historical Romance Writer Robyn Carr (The Blue Falcon) fears that workmen digging near her new house in Florida will hit a power line. A voltage drop of even a few seconds could cause the displayed page of text to disappear on her Burroughs Redactor-III. (Apple Computer Inc. offers an accessory for just such occasions-a battery pack that supplies electricity during blackouts. Its name: Apple Juice.) The most surreal glitch occurred when Environmentalist-Writer Michael Parfit...
...intervening years he was a detective, an invalid and one of Faulkner's drinking partners. He annoyed Hemingway, raised the wrath of the McCarthyites, fought in two wars, went to jail and revolutionized the now well-known genre of detective fiction. From Red Harvest through The Maltese Falcon. The Thin Man and a hundred more short stories, he developed and became the epitome of the hard-boiled but literate writer. He started with short stories in H.L. Mencken's The Smart Set, the home of such luminaries as Fitzgerald and Lewis, Huxley and Maugham, and ended up with the federal...
Hammett turned out a ton of these kinds of stories, before The Maltese Falcon was made into three different movie versions and made him famous. After that, he went out to Hollywood and lived the big life for a while, went broke, ran off to New York, lived in a hotel managed by Nathanial West and wrote The Thin Man--the book that would make him his second fortune. Nick Charles is the hero of The Thin Man, and he and his wife, Nora, are witty, urbane detectives who showed how much the sensibilities of the country had grown since...
...drive and his touch. He discovered that he could live handsomely off subsidiary rights. The Thin Man (1934) was his last and most careless novel; it ultimately brought him almost $1 million from film and radio serializations. Hollywood kept recycling his material; the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart and Sidney Greenstreet, was the third film based on that book in ten years. Hammett had always shown a streak of to-hell-with-it independence, and success made him increasingly reckless. He partied and drank too much, offended studio heads and publishers with his disregard for deadlines...