The back jacket of this book describes it as "one of the classics of both suspense literature and American writing," but, honestly, I didn't see it. The writing was not bad, but I didn't find it that suspensful. In fact, the only suspense was created in such a cliched manner that it fell flat when the ending wasn't spectactular. Hammett kept his reader in the dark completely, only revealing small bits and pieces at at time, and, somehow, it managed to be predictable. It's not that I didn't enjoy it, I guess I did, but I definitely didn't love it. It's a good thing that it was a quick read, or I wouldn't have enjoyed it at all.
2.5/5 stars
Half Broke Horses
13 years ago
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