Dashiell Hammett News

Julie Rivett has only two memories of her famous grandfather, author Dashiell Hammett.

Janus Theatre puts a different spin on "Romeo and Juliet" by staging Shakespeare's tragedy about the young star-crossed lovers with an all-female cast.

BUSINESS AFTER HOURS, 5-7 p.m. at United Way of Weld County, 814 9th St., Greeley.

THE MALTESE FALCON. This year's book is "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett.

Ed Loy is the name of the Dublin private eye in the Irish writer Declan Hughes' series of four crime novels, of which All the Dead Voices is the latest.

Mid-Columbia Libraries kicks-off a new reading program called "The Big Read" today.

This October, the Rockaway Township Library will participate in The Big Read with a communitywide celebration of Dashiell Hammett's classic detective novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Rockaway Township Mayor Louis Sceusi will launch The Big Read at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

It was a dark night in the City that Never Sleeps. It looked like Lemus was still living there, see? But if the copper remembered right, other family lived there too.

Spade is back. "Tough, nasty, smart, bullheaded" Sam Spade of the long, bony jaw, sloping shoulders and bearlike body; the six-foot-tall gumshoe with the hooded eyes who wouldn't play the sap for anyone, not even for the woman he loved, and who plied his trade on the fringes of the law in San Francisco during the Prohibition years.

Where's the falcon? This is the question many a Rockaway Town ship resident will be asking throughout October.

This October, the Rockaway Township Library will participate in The Big Read with a community-wide celebration of the classic detective novel 'The Maltese Falcon,' by Dashiell Hammett.

One conclusion you might reach well before the end of "The Thin Man" -- the ever-popular Dashiell Hammett story now in a City Lit Theater production featuring a new stage adaptation by Terry McCabe and snappy direction by Adrianne Cury -- is that when it comes to knocking back drinks, Nick and Nora Charles easily could go head-to-head with another ...

The first movie was made in 1931. The movie starred "Latin Lover" Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade, Bebe Daniels as Ruth Wonderly, Dudley Digges as Casper Gutman, and Otto Matieson as Joel Cairo.

It is hot, muggy, and miserable. Perfect movie weather. And the Brattle will help you spend the entire day in its air conditioning by showing every movie in "The Thin Man" series, a trick the theater first pulled 20 years ago.

The Ferndale community already is getting involved in The Big Read, a program being offered by the public library in that city in March.

'Sam Shade, A Detective Musical' Dashiell Hammett created a memorable, sleuthing character in Sam Spade, of The Maltese Falcon fame, and it was only a matter of time before a musical based on Spade's escapades would emerge.

'Sam Shade, A Detective Musical' Dashiell Hammett created a memorable, sleuthing character in Sam Spade, of The Maltese Falcon fame, and it was only a matter of time before a musical based on Spade's escapades would emerge.

For the third year in a row, New Castle-Henry County Public Library has landed a grant to host The Big Read.

Jubilee Theatre ends its 2008-2009 Season, The company 's 28th, with Sam Shade: A Detective Musical, an original musical with music and lyrics by Joe Roger s. Directed by Tyrone King, this farce is based on the classic novels The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells and The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett .

"The stuff dreams are made of," mutters sleuth-for-hire Sam Spade, referencing the titular black statue that's had everyone in a tizzy.