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The Maltese Falcon (Read a Great Movie) Book
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Foyles
The character Sam Spade is now the subject of a brand new TV series, MONSIEUR SPADE, starring Clive Owen.One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century.'His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow' IndependentSam 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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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? THE AUTHOR B.1894 d.1961. After spells as newsboy freight clerk labourer messenger stevedore and advertising manager Hammett became an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundation for his writing career.
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BookDepository
The Maltese Falcon : Paperback : Orion Publishing Co : 9780752865331 : 0752865331 : 07 Oct 2008 : One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century. 'Influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carre ... The Maltese Falcon is the Hammett novel that jumps from the pages of its genre and into literature' Guardian
- 0752865331
- 9780752865331
- Dashiell Hammett
- 24 March 2005
- Orion
- Paperback (Book)
- 224
- New Ed
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