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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. "Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be. That kind of reputation might be good business. " The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammett Sam Spade is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached. Dashiell Hammett I listened to a full cast reading of the book. Very good and it was only 3 hours & 15 minutes long.
[I]t would not surprise us one whit if Mr. Hammett should turn out to be the Great American Mystery Writer. . . . In short, "The Maltese Falcon" is the best one, outside the . . . polite classes, in Lord knows when. If the locution "hard-boiled" had not already been coined it would be necessary to coin it now to describe the characters . . . . Belongs to SeriesBelongs to Publisher SeriesArion Press (11) — 14 more detebe (69/I) Libro amigo [Bruguera] (570) SaPo (167) Den svarte serie (31) Vampiro (34) Zephyr Books (19) Is contained inThe Dain Curse / The Thin Man / The Glass Key / Red Harvest / The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Great Mystery Books, 10 Volumes (Journey into Fear, The 39 Steps, And Then There Were None, Maltese Falcon, The Nine Tailors, The Doorbell Rang, The Confidential Agent, The Big Sleep, Assignment in Brittany, The Daughter of Time) by Eric Ambler The Glass Key / The Thin Man / Red Harvest / The Adventures of Sam Spade / The Maltese Falcon / The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett Has the adaptationIs abridged inInspiredHas as a studyHas as a student's study guideAwardsNotable Lists
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HTML:A coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. 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 Dashiel Hammett's iconic, influential, and beloved The Maltese Falcon.. No library descriptions found. |
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Poor Effie has no idea about the world she lives on the fringes of. Sam Spade's foggy Noir San Francisco is steeped with corruption, vendetta and greed. You wouldn't want to live there, but it's not a bad place to visit for a while.
Had the writing been as strong as the story, this would have scored 5 out of 5. However, it's technical flaws cannot entirely br ignored. ( )