I really don't have that much to say about this one. It was very similar to Red Harvest, also by Dashiell Hammett, also published in 1929. The dude was the godfather of the hard-boiled detective trope and I've enjoyed his work very much. Still, I'm in no rush to run back to the same well a third time; although he has a few other books, I've now read his most famous two, and already in this one it kind of felt like I'd hit a point of diminishing returns. So it goes!
Anyway, this is my 25th book post on the year, and with this I've hit my 2014 goal and more than doubled last year's output. Can I do twenty-five more in 2015? Time will tell.
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