The Maltese falcon.

267 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 1930 by A.A. Knopf.

OCLC Number:
6553066

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Classic noir. Private detective Sam Spade is hired to search for a valuable, gem-encrusted antique in the shape of a falcon.

Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?

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Subjects

  • Spade, Sam (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Private investigators -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction
  • San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction