The Maltese Falcon And Other Crime Fiction From The Legendary Magazine by Dashiell Hammett
And Other Crime Fiction From The Legendary Magazine
This collection centers on a hard‑boiled private detective, Sam Spade, who becomes entangled with a seductive, duplicitous woman and a globe‑spanning hunt for a priceless, enigmatic statuette; the surrounding stories, originally published in a leading pulp magazine, similarly showcase terse, unsentimental prose, lean plotting, and morally ambiguous characters operating in a corrupt urban world. Themes of greed, betrayal, and survival-by-wit pervade the tales, which helped define American noir and left a lasting influence on crime fiction.
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- 1929
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- English
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