The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Dashiell Hammett
• Title: The Maltese Falcon
• Publisher: ‎ Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Edition; First Vintage Books Edition (August 1, 1992)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – 217 pages‏
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0679722645
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0679722649
• Lexile measure: ‎ 760L
• Item Weight: ‎ .65 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.13 x 0.61 x 7.98 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Cover Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First Vintage Books Edition

Synopsis:

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • From "a master of the detective novel [and] one hell of a writer" (The Boston Globe) comes a coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers.

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 Author:

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, a screenplay writer, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse).

In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in The New York Times, "the dean of the… 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." Time magazine included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on a list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.