The Maltese Falcon (Crime Masterworks)

The Maltese Falcon (Crime Masterworks)

by Dashiell Hammett (Author)

Synopsis

THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) set the standard by which the private eye genre is judged. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Orion
Published: 21 Mar 2002

ISBN 10: 0752847643
ISBN 13: 9780752847641
Book Overview: The greatest crime novel of the 20th century launches Orion's Crime Masterworks series

Author Bio
B.1894, d.1961. After spells as newsboy, freight clerk, labourer, messenger, stevedore and advertising manager, Hammett became an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundation for his writing career.