The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett) - illustrated - (Literary Thoughts Edition) - Dashiell Hammett
| Автор: | Dashiell Hammett |
| Издательство: | Bookwire |
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| Жанр произведения: | Языкознание |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9783741879555 |
Literary Thoughts edition
presents
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
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"The Maltese Falcon" is a 1930 published detective novel by Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), telling the story of San Francisco based private detective Samuel «Sam» Spade, who gets hired by a beautiful young woman, «Miss Wonderly», to follow a guy named Floyd Thursby. Sam Spade and his partner Miles Archer take the job, but later that night, Archer is found shot to death. A few hours later, Thursby is also killed and Spade is a suspect. Sam Spade finds out, that it is all about the title object, a foot-high black statuette of unknown but substantial value.
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