The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Book description
A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett’s coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted generations of readers. Published in 1930, 217 pages.
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Additional information
January Magazine. A 75th Anniversary Tribute to Dashiell Hammett and his Seminal Novel The Maltese Falcon
PBS American Masters. Biography of Dashiell Hammett
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