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The Maltese Falcon in Haiku
Paperback
Series: Classic Novels Adapted Into Verse
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781067952082
Publisher: Othernorth Press
Published: Sep 12 2026
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A city of shadows. A detective with a crooked smile. A falcon that has shattered lives for centuries.
In this bold reimagining of Dashiell Hammett's classic, Devin Munroe distills the grit and menace of hardboiled San Francisco into a hypnotic series of haiku. Each chapter unfolds like a reel of smoky film noir: rain-slicked alleys, the glint of a pistol, the slow curl of cigarette smoke.
Told through 600 razor-sharp seventeen-syllable vignettes, Sam Spade navigates betrayal, lust, and murder-all in the long shadow of the elusive black bird.
For lovers of crime fiction, poetry, and the dark beauty of the unexpected, The Maltese Falcon as a noir haiku novel transforms a legendary story into a modern art form-one fleeting, unforgettable scene at a time.
Step into the fog. Every syllable counts.
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