PRESS RELEASE Richard Layman's 'Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade' Nominated for Edgar Award

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Kenneth Turan of The Los Angeles Times hailed the new Edgar Award nominee
as "a treasure beyond price for fans of both the classic Hammett novel and
the three (that's right, three) film versions of the doomed quest for a
black bird. Layman's delightful book to a wider audience.org

"Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade," edited by Richard Layman
ISBN 0-9725898-6-4
Publisher: Vince Emery Productions , www.

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An incredible amalgam of photos, memos, letters, reviews,
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-- Working notes (printed here for the first time) for "The Secret
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About the Edgar Awards

The Edgar Allen Poe Awards are the most prestigious and sought -after awards
in the mystery field. The 2006 Edgar Awards, honoring the best in mystery
fiction , nonfiction, television, and film from 2005, will be presented to
the winners at the Mystery Writers of America's 60th Gala Banquet on April
27, 2006 in New York City.

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The result of a lifetime of research by Hammett expert Layman, "Discovering
The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade" provides hundreds of surprises about the
novel, its author, and its film versions:

-- For rights to the now -famous novel (which has sold more than 4.

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Layman Inc.

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million copies in English alone), publisher Alfred A.
-- The sculptor who created the legendary statuette of the black bird for
the 1941 Humphrey Bogart movie may have been an accomplice of the Black
Dahlia murderer and the killer of author James Ellroy's mother. He was nominated for an
Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America for editing "Selected Letters
of Dashiell Hammett , 1921-1960.. She has also written books filled with her
personal musings, rants, prose and essays .

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The critically praised book "Discovering
The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade," edited by Richard Layman, has been
nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for the Edgar Award -- the
mystery field's most prestigious award -- as the Best Critical/Biographical
book of the year." Mr.

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About Richard Layman

Richard Layman, the editor of "Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam
Spade," has written six books on Dashiell Hammett. In February 2005 Sandra
will begin recurring guest roles on Crossing Jordan and Showtime's The
L Word.

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"The Edgar Award is one of the most
influential literary awards in the world, so I am sure this nomination will
expose Mr.

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"Richard Layman put a heroic effort into creating 'Discovering The Maltese
Falcon and Sam Spade,' and I am glad that his work has been recognized,"
said Vince Emery, the book's publisher. A complete list of 2006 Edgar Award nominees is
available at the organization's website: www.emerybooks.

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