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Original Title:	The Maltese Falcon
ISBN:	0752865331 (ISBN13: 9780752865331)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Casper Gutman, Effie Perine, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Joel Cairo, Sam Spade
Setting:	San Francisco, California(United States) California(United States)
Literary Awards:	Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel of the Century (2000), Audie Award for Audiobook Adaptation (2010), Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album (2010)

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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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Title	:	The Maltese Falcon
Author	:	Dashiell Hammett
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 213 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2005 by Orion (first published 1930)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Classics

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Anybody who read this book without any prior knowledge of it would probably dismiss it as being full of cliches, archetypes and tropes, they would be dead wrong of course because this is where these tropes originated. The anti-hero, smooth talking P.I., the femme fatale, the plucky Girl Friday secretary, the gay gangster (uh, I'm not sure if this actually caught on) etc.I don't actually have a lot to say about this book because, while it was moderately enjoyable, it did not do anything above and

Welcome to Spade and Archer detective agency. One day a gorgeous woman came in asking to help tracking her sister who ran away with a bad guy. The down payment was good, so the detectives took the case, no questions asked. As the direct result one of the detectives - Sam Spade - got to experience all of the traditional noir fun while readers follow ever-twisting plot. I said it countless times before and I will say it again: Sam Spade is the grandfather of all PIs in all noir, in particular all

This book is pretty good. Too bad its not better known. And itd be cool if somebody made a decent movie version of it someday...

"I'm going to send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means you'll be out again in twenty years. You're an angel. I'll wait for you." He cleared his throat. "If they hang you I'll always remember you.--Sam SpadeWith 39,000 ratings and almost 4,000 reviews of this book, you dont need a detailed synopsis and review, but Ill say it is a great book on so many levels, very entertaining, and if you have never read it, I highly recommend it. It was a pleasure within the same two

My expectations of The Maltese Falcon were too high. I love a good hard boiled crime story with a stereotypical detective and a bad girl. Brigid OShaughnessy you are a very bad girl. This was a good detective story and the writing was great, but ultimately I felt deflated. I haven't seen the movie so maybe I'll check it out.

I enjoyed Dashiell Hammetts The Maltese Falcon. Id seen the movie; however, this was my first read of Hammetts iconic detective story. Theres a lot of story to unravel (the history of the Maltese Falcon statue being the most prominent here) and lots of characters with their own motivations and shifting allegiances. Hammetts novel also introduces the no nonsense detective, Sam Spade. As such, it is one of the precursors of hardboiled detective fiction often associated with noir fiction. Id often

The writing in Hammett's Maltese Falcon seemed to get more fluid as it went along. It started out stilted and choppy. I also wasn't particularly keen on his predilection for cataloging every single item of clothing every character was wearing. Another thing that I found strange was his choice to describe in user-manual detail exactly how, step-by-step, Sam Spade rolls a cigarette. This happened early in the book and killed the forward movement of the narrative for me.But I read on because I