Sure, it's important to read the biggies: Tolstoy, Faulkner, Joyce, or Grisham so you can appear smart at cocktail parties. However, you won't get more bang for your hard boiled buck than you do from a good detective novel. For this type of manly entertainment, there is no one better than Dashiell Hammett. Good ol' Dash was the master of the detective novel but, like "The Boston Globe" says, he was "also one hell of a writer." His masterpieces, The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, and The Thin Man still stand up to this day as brilliant expressions of masculinity. So, read on...
but, The Maltese Falcon also made a pretty great film as well:
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