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The Maltese Falcon
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Series: Cletham Classics, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerClassic Fiction
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ISBN10: 197155944X
ISBN13: 9781971559445
Publisher: Eris
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.67 Width: 4.25 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781971559445
Publisher: Eris
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.67 Width: 4.25 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
A priceless object. A handful of people willing to lie, betray, and kill for it. And at the center, a man who knows exactly what everyone is doing--and how far he is willing to go himself. The Maltese Falcon strips the detective story to its core: not the solving of a crime, but the negotiation of a world where nothing is binding and everything has a price. What remains is the pure tension between desire and restraint, knowledge and action, self-interest and the faint, stubborn outline of a code.
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