The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett PAPERBACK 9798350501841

Maple Spring Publishing

Dashiell Hammetts The Maltese Falcon, first published in 1930, is one of the greatest crime novels of all times, inspiring numerous spinoffs in film, television, and theater. The hero, Sam Spade, is a hardbitten and ethically ambiguous detective who is approached by the beautiful and mysterious Miss Wonderly to track down her missing sister. Spades partner, Miles Archer, steps in, only to be shot that very night. Spades honor as a detective requires him to track down Archers killer. Spades journey takes him through San Francisco of the 1920sdark, foggy, and sinister, in one of the citys many moods. Spade knows that Miss Wonderly is not who she claims to be. Unraveling this mystery, he encounters Joel Cairo, an effeminate Greek antiquities dealer Casper Gutman, a fat man in search of a priceless figurine of a black falcon and Wilmer, a brutal young gunslinger. The Maltese Falcon has captured the public imagination through the famous 1941 film starring Humphrey Bogart. But the novel itself is a masterpiece of mystery fictionand of the lean, hardboiled prose style that came to characterize the American detective novel. It remains as compelling as it was the day it was published. Born in 1894 to a workingclass family in Maryland, Dashiell Hammett drifted through odd jobs before taking a job at the Pinkerton Detective Agency, where he learned the ins and outs of detective work that would furnish the material for his crime novels. Between 1929 and 1934, he published five of... | Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon Paperback Book