Category: Dashiell Hammett
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Here’s a Secret About the Percy Cole Series
The Persephone Cole Vintage Mysteries series was born out of a challenge by my editor to write a protagonist who looked and acted more like a real person, not a model. Could I do it? I thought about it and created Percy Cole. Little did I know that when I made her as large if…
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Sheltering in Place – Day 60
“The cheaper the crook the gaudier the patter.” This line was uttered by Humphrey Bogart when he played Sam Spade in the movie Maltese Falcon. This classic was written by my hero, Dashiell Hammett. Even at seventeen years old, when I read that particular line in the book of the same title, I knew Hammett…