The Maltese Falcon - Softcover

Hammett, Dashiell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752865331 ISBN 13: 9780752865331

Publisher: Orion, 2005

Synopsis

One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century.

'His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow' Independent

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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Review:

Dashiell Hammett's crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carré ... The Maltese Falcon is the Hammett novel that jumps from the pages of its genre and into literature (GUARDIAN)

His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow (INDEPENDENT)

One of the foremost practitioners of the hard-boiled detective story (THE SCOTSMAN)

The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction (NEW YORK TIMES)

He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used (Raymond Chandler)

He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer (BOSTON GLOBE)

The first fully "hard-boiled" hero in American letters (NEW YORKER)

Book Description:

One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0752865331
• ISBN 13: 9780752865331
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224