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Classic noir. Private detective Sam Spade is hired to search for a valuable, gem-encrusted antique in the shape of a falcon. 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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Classical in form, cool, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Dashiell Hammett
- First published
- 1929
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- Alianza Editorial, Sound Library, Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Editions
- 95
- Language
- Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, ind
- ISBN
- 9781471917684
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“Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth.”
American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), The Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9.
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