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There was Sherlock Holmes. There was Hercule Poirot. There was Lord Peter Wimsey. They all lived across the pond. I've read the former and the latter, though not the middle, and I've enjoyed them both, and you're welcome to discuss them all, but my post is about the American detective story - the literary version of the film noir.

Actually, my post is going to be about three authors and their most famous characters, because that's what I feel like writing about right now.
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" In this film that garnered accolades at the 1983 Houston International Film Festival, award-winning director Wim Wenders imagines what would happen if legendary scribe Dashiell Hammett (Frederic Forrest) actually did some detective work himself instead of just writing about it."

WTF.

HE DID.

He was a Pinkerton's agent. He WAS a detective. He DID solve crimes and shit. That's where he got the ideas for most of his stories - certainly most if not all of the early, extremely-procedural-report-sounding Continental op stories. What the shit.