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Notes one: “Where Their Best Interest Lies”: Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon 1. Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (New York: Vintage, 1972), 64; hereafter cited in the text. 2. Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 24 vols., trans. James Strachey et al. (London: Hogarth Press, 1955–78), 18:16. 3. Steven Marcus,“Dashiell Hammett and the Continental Op,” in The Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett, ed. Christopher Metress (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994), 194; hereafter cited in the text. 4. Jean Pierre Chartier, “The Americans Are Making Dark Films Too,” in Perspectives on Film Noir, ed. R. Barton Palmer (New York: G. K. Hall, 1996), 25–27. 5. Robert G. Porfirio, “No Way Out: Existential Motifs in Film Noir,” in Palmer, Perspectives on Film Noir, 120. 6. Charles Gregory,“Living Life Sideways,” in ibid., 155. 7. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1959), 75; hereafter cited in the text. 8. Edgar Allan Poe, Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, 3 vols., ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969–78), 2:723; hereafter cited in the text. 9. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 119. t wo: Being Boss: Chandler’s The Big Sleep 1. Frank MacShane, The Life of Raymond Chandler (New York: Penguin, 1978), 34; hereafter cited in the text. 2. Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (New York: Vintage, 1972), 30. 3. Dashiell Hammett, “The Girl with the Silver Eyes,” in The Continental Op, ed. Steven Marcus (New York: Vintage, 1975), 128. 4. Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest (New York: Vintage, 1972), 59. 5. Dashiell Hammett,“The Assistant Murderer,” in Nightmare Town, ed. Kirby McCauley et al. (New York: Knopf, 1999), 132. 6. Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse (New York: Vintage, 1972), 29; hereafter cited in the text. 7. Dashiell Hammett,“The Gutting of Couffignal,”in The Big Knockover, ed. Lillian Hellman (New York: Vintage, 1972), 34. 8. Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (New York: Vintage, 1976), 7–8; hereafter cited in the text. 9. Raymond Chandler, “The Simple Art of Murder,” in The Simple Art of Murder (New York: Ballantine, 1977), 20; hereafter cited in the text. 10. Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (New York: Ballantine, 1973), 298; hereafter cited in the text. 11. Wallace Stevens, “The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words,” in The Necessary Angel (New York: Vintage), 36. 12. Raymond Chandler, Playback (New York: Ballantine, 1978), 76; hereafter cited in the text. 13. Thomas Hiney, Raymond Chandler: A Biography (New York: Grove Press, 1997), 257; hereafter cited in the text. 14. Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man (New York: Vintage, 1972), 6; hereafter cited in the text. 15. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (New York: Scribner’s, 1926), 245. 16. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night (New York: Scribner’s, 1934), 161–62. three: Beating the Boss: Cain’s Double Indemnity 1. James M. Cain, Three by Cain: “Serenade,” “Love’s Lovely Counterfeit,” “The Butterfly ” (New York: Vintage, 1989), 355; hereafter cited in the text as “Pref.” 2. Frank MacShane, The Life of Raymond Chandler (New York: Penguin, 1978), 101. 3. Roy Hoopes, Cain: The Biograpghy of James M. Cain (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982), 213; hereafter cited in the text. 4. James M. Cain, Double Indemnity (New York: Vintage, 1978), 17; hereafter cited in the text. 5. Edgar Allan Poe,“The Imp of the Perverse,” in the Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe, 3 vols., ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969–78), 3:1220. 6. James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice (New York: Vintage, 1978), 118; hereafter cited in the text. 7. Edgar Allan Poe,“The Black Cat,” in Collected Works, 3:852. 8. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon (New York: Scribner’s, 1941), 28; hereafter cited in the text. 9. Ibid, 163. The sentence also appears in The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald. ed. Matthew J. Broccoli (New York: Harcourt, 1978), 58, item 428, and it appears as “I once thought there were no second acts in American lives” in Fitzgeralds’s essay “My Lost City,” in The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (New York: New Directions, 1962), 31. 10. Matthew J. Bruccoli, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981), 349. 11. Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (New York: Bantam, 1970...

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