This note contains spoilers for the book.

Hammett seems to be fun, so I'll keep on reading him for a bit.

I've got vague nibbles of memory that I've actually read these last three or four before, but I can't remember specifically enough. I'm leaving the flag set at "no", but who really knows?

This is a nicely complex mystery, with a nicely dry and remote main character, with a nicely intelligent and compatible wife. Lots of nice things about it. I admire the various ruses to maintain the appearance of the first murder victim being alive for a while after his death. And there's a definite inevitability about the schemes unwinding; too many people know.