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FEATURING THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED THE AMC SERIES MONSIEUR SPADE STARRING CLIVE OWEN ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME Detective Sam Spade is a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. When his partner is killed during a stakeout, he is drawn into the hunt for a fantastic treasure with a dubious provenance—a golden bird encrusted with jewels. Also on the trail are a perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, an oversized adventurer named Gutman, and Spade’s new client 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.
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The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
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- Released
- 1989
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- Title
- The Maltese Falcon
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Dashiell Hammett
- Publisher
- Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
- Released
- 1989
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0679722645
- ISBN13
- 9780679722649
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Mystery & Thriller, Religious Topics, Religion, Thriller, Spirituality, Classics, Suspense, Christian Themes, USA, Christianity, Murders, Detective Fiction, Detective, Faith, Adapted for Film, Jews, America, Religious themes, God, Noir, Jesus Christ, Crimes, God and man, Private Detective, Christian Faith, San Francisco, Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction
- First published
- 1930
- Original title
- The Maltese Falcon
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
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- FEATURING THE CHARACTER THAT INSPIRED THE AMC SERIES MONSIEUR SPADE STARRING CLIVE OWEN ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME Detective Sam Spade is a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. When his partner is killed during a stakeout, he is drawn into the hunt for a fantastic treasure with a dubious provenance—a golden bird encrusted with jewels. Also on the trail are a perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, an oversized adventurer named Gutman, and Spade’s new client 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.