Prague skyline (August 2021).
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Call Me Marlowe is a cosmopolitan novel that that challenges our commitments to national stories.
Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade (1941).
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Sam Spade only appeared in one novel. But he left his mark, with the help of the Hollywood legend who portrayed him.
Hard-boiled detective: Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye (1973).
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Whether they are set in a country house or on the mean streets, detective novels tell us so much about human nature.