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Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett
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      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?
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Dashiell Hammett EAN: 9780752865331 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 200 g HEIGHT: 133 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Orion Publishing Co DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-11-25 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, FICTION / Crime WIDTH: 200 cm SPINE:

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      San Francisco, Crime and mystery fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction

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      Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland and worked in a number of menial jobs until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes RED HARVEST, THE MALTESE FALCON, THE GLASS KEY, THE THIN MAN and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine.
      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?
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Dashiell Hammett EAN: 9780752865331 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 200 g HEIGHT: 133 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Orion Publishing Co DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-11-25 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, FICTION / Crime WIDTH: 200 cm SPINE:

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      San Francisco, Crime and mystery fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction

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      Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland and worked in a number of menial jobs until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes RED HARVEST, THE MALTESE FALCON, THE GLASS KEY, THE THIN MAN and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine.

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