![]() Sleuthing suited young Hammett, but World War I intervened, interrupting his work and injuring his health. Hammett left school at the age of fourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter-messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming an operative for Pinkerton's Detective Agency. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. His characters as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction." - The New York TimesĪbout the Author DASHIELL SAMUEL HAMMETT was born in St. is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer." - The Boston Globe " The Maltese Falcon is not only probably the best detective story we have ever read, it is an exceedingly well written novel." - The Times Literary Supplement (London) "Hammett's prose clean and entirely unique. ![]() ![]() These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's iconic, influential, and beloved The Maltese Falcon. 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. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. ![]() About the Book First published in 1930, The Maltese Falcon stands today as one of the classics of both suspense literature and American writing.īook Synopsis From "a master of the detective novel one hell of a writer" ( The Boston Globe) comes a coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers.Ī treasure worth killing for. ![]()
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