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Aug 09, 2022 | ISBN 9780593311905 Buy
Jul 17, 1989 | ISBN 9780679722649 Buy
Dec 29, 2010 | ISBN 9780307767516 Buy
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Aug 09, 2022 | ISBN 9780593311905
Jul 17, 1989 | ISBN 9780679722649
Dec 29, 2010 | ISBN 9780307767516
A coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy.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 name 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 iconic, influential, and beloved The Maltese Falcon.
From “a master of the detective novel [and] one hell of a writer” (The Boston Globe) comes a coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers.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 name 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 iconic, influential, and beloved The Maltese Falcon.
Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in 1894 in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, and his family moved to Baltimore when he… More about Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in 1894 in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, and his family moved to Baltimore when he was five. He dropped out of high school after his freshman year and held a series of odd jobs—messenger boy,… More about Dashiell Hammett
“Dashiell Hammett … is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer.” —The Boston Globe “The Maltese Falcon is not only probably the best detective story we have ever read, it is an exceedingly well written novel.” —The Times Literary Supplement (London) “Hammett’s prose [is] clean and entirely unique. His characters [are] as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction.” —The New York Times
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