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The Maltese Falcon (Heathen Edition)

The Maltese Falcon (Heathen Edition)

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN10: 1948316625
ISBN13: 9781948316620
Publisher: Heathen Editions
Published: Apr 5 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was an American author widely recognized as the trailblazer of hard-boiled detective fiction with his unsentimental, breakneck storytelling chock-full of fast-paced, slangy dialogue and abrupt, explosive violence. In 1930 he published The Maltese Falcon, the novel that sharpened the genre to a lethal point, unveiling Sam Spade - a private eye with a moral code all his own and a talent for keeping his face as unreadable as a blank ledger. In a San Francisco where every kindness is a setup and every partnership is a temporary convenience, he's hired to track down a missing woman, a search that spirals into a deadly hunt for a legendary falcon statuette, drawing Spade into the orbit of a trio of schemers whose charm is as dangerous as their desperation, each willing to lie, bleed, or kill for a chance to touch its promise. As the bodies stack up, the prize proves as treacherous as the people chasing it, and Spade must navigate a maze of deceit where survival means nothing if it costs him the one thing worse than death - being played for a fool.

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