

The Maltese Falcon (Special Edition)
by Dashiell Hammett, Josephine Hammett Marshall
240 pages2022Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN 9780593311905
About this book
<b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • A special edition of this coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy.</b><br><br>A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. 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. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's iconic, influential, and beloved <i>The Maltese Falcon.<br></i><br>A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Special Edition
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2022
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN
- 9780593311905
- Language
- en
About Dashiell Hammett
American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), The Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9.
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