The Maltese falcon
"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 three generations of readers."--P. [4] of cover.
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- Full title :The Maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett.
Summary
"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 three generations of readers."--P. [4] of cover.
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- Publication Date:1992, c1957.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Random House/Knopf
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1992, c1957.
The Physical Object
- Description:186 p. ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780679722649, 0679722645
- oclc:on1236216543
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