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Books like The Maltese Falcon 1929
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About The Maltese Falcon
Books closest to The Maltese Falcon
The Glass Key 1931Also classical in form, cool and grave
Trouble Is My Business 1972Also classical in form, cool and grave
Farewell, My Lovely 1940Also classical in form, cool and plot-driven
Nightmare Town 1948Also classical in form, grave and earnest
The Lady in the Lake 1943Also cool, classical in form and grave
The Little Sister 1949Also classical in form and cool
The Big Sleep 1939Also classical in form, cool and grave
The Ipcress File 1962Also cool and grave
Lady in the Lake 2008Also classical in form, cool and grave
Richard Stark's Parker 2017Also classical in form, cool and grave
Poodle Springs 1989Also classical in form, cool and grave
The high window 1942Also classical in form
The same feel, in other forms
Films
The Maltese Falcon 1941Also classical in form, cool and grave
The Glass Key 1942Also classical in form, cool and grave
The Brasher Doubloon 1947Also classical in form, cool and grave
Albums
- Tana Talk 4 2022Also classical in form and grave
- DILLAGENCE II 2026Also classical in form and grave
- Th1rt3en 2011Also classical in form, cool and grave
Series
The Mod Squad 1968Also classical in form, grave and earnest
Have Gun, Will Travel 1957Also classical in form, cool and grave
Naked City 1958Also grave, earnest and plot-driven
Games
Assassin 1992Also cool, classical in form and grave
Headquarters World War II 2024Also cool, classical in form and grave
Virtua Fighter 1993Also classical in form, cool and grave
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