The Code of a Detective
1 min readJul 5, 2018
“This code . . . not only served him as a working detective, but it gave him a set of personal rules that shaped his actions and thoughts throughout the remainder of his life. And, of course, it provided the thematic core of his fiction. It was this code that Sam Spade and the Continental Op lived by.”
— William F. Nolan, Hammett: A Life at the Edge
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