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Name: The Maltese Falcon
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Year: 1930
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Genres/categories: Mystery, Noir, Classic, Free books, Read online, Thriller

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9780671030742
9780792735908
9780890640449
0671030744
0792735900
0890640440
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 coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted many generations of readers.
About the author:
Dashiell Hammett was an American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. 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."
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