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3 Crows in a TrenchcoatBooks, Films & Bottles

Three crows stacked inside a grey trenchcoat, the top one wearing a fedora, standing in a city alley
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The Bird Nobody Owns

Hammett's novel and Huston's picture, a chocolate espresso martini that's sweet on top and trouble all the way down, and a shadow that walked out of an antique shop on Twelfth Street without paying.

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