The Maltese Falcon (Special Edition)

By Dashiell Hammett and Josephine Hammett Marshall

By Dashiell Hammett

By Dashiell Hammett

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    About The Maltese Falcon (Special Edition)

    A coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.

    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.

    About The Maltese Falcon (Special Edition)

    A coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.

    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.

    About The Maltese Falcon (Special Edition)

    A coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.

    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.

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    Praise

    “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

    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

    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

    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

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Aug 09, 2022 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780593311905

    Paperback
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Jul 17, 1989 | 224 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679722649

    Ebook
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Dec 29, 2010 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9780307767516

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