by Dashiell Hammett (Author)
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?
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