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The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett. The story is told entirely in external third-person narrative; there is no description whatsoever of any character's thoughts or feelings, only what they say and do, and how they look. The novel... Read Full Overview

Dashiell Hammett's influential detective novel, ranked one of Time Magazine's best mystery and thriller books of all time, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line. Detective Sam Spade is a private eye with his own solitary code... Read Full Overview

The chase is on. The body count is rising. And the only thing more dangerous than the criminals hunting the falcon is Sam Spade himself. A treasure worth killing for. A dame worth double-crossing for. A detective with a code he won't break-not even for love.

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Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon is more than a mystery: it is a seminal work that defined a genre, a tough, unflinching portrait of a hard-nosed private eye navigating a treacherous landscape, culminating in a shocking cliff-hanger that has left readers dangling for... Read Full Overview

A coolly gleaming jewel of detective fiction from one of the greatest mystery authors of all time that has plagued three generations of readers.

This is a prize worth dying for. Sam Spade is a grizzled private investigator with his own set of rules. Joel Cairo, a perfumed... Read Full Overview