Erik Larson Picks WSJ Book Club Read

By Dianna Dilworth 

Author Erik Larson has selected The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett for The Wall Street Journal‘s book club read this month.

“It is the ultimate detective novel, and frankly not just detective novel,” Larson told The Wall Street Journal. “I think it’s one of the best novels, period… Here’s this writer, here’s Hammett, who in 217 pages creates this world with four of the absolutely most vivid characters that literature, I think, has ever come up with.”

Readers are invited to read along and join weekly discussions on the blog, Speakeasy and on WSJ.com/bookclub, as well as through discussions on Facebook page and Twitter via #WSJbookclub.