The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

1929 • 165 pages

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Average rating3.9

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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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September 16, 2008

anticlimactic.

June 7, 2009

Wow! I love mystery noir novels, and I've read a lot of great ones but this one has become my favourite. Sam Spade is such a great character and Hammett's prose is exquisite. Highly recommended!

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