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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780679722649
ISBN: 0679722645
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: July 17, 1989
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: July 17, 1989
Sales Rank: 4083
Studio: Vintage
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Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, stars in Hammett's detective fiction, a novel that has haunted 2 generations of readers.
Amazon.com Review:
Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (including The Dain Curse and The Glass Key), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the police, risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for his help, while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the next moment.
Spade's partner is murdered on a stakeout; the cops blame him for the killing; a beautiful redhead with a heartbreaking story appears and disappears; grotesque villains demand a payoff he can't provide; and everyone wants a fabulously valuable gold statuette of a falcon, created as tribute for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Who has it? And what will it take to get it back? Spade's solution is as complicated as the motives of the seekers assembled in his hotel room, but the truth can be a cold comfort indeed.
Spade is bigger (and blonder) in the book than in the movie, and his Mephistophelean countenance is by turns seductive and volcanic. Sam knows how to fight, whom to call, how to rifle drawers and secrets without leaving a trace, and just the right way to call a woman "Angel" and convince her that she is. He is the quintessence of intelligent cool, with a wise guy's perfect pitch. If you only know the movie, read the book. If you're riveted by Chinatown or wonder where Robert B. Parker's Spenser gets his comebacks, read the master. --Barbara Schlieper
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Brought to exciting life by a full cast (including Michael Madsen, whose acting credits include "Reservoir Dogs" and "Kill Bill, Vol. 2"), Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon is an unabridged audiobook rendition of the classic story, first published in "Black Mask" magazine in 1929, that inspired an unforgettable and beloved mystery movie. Protagonist Sam Spade, the embodiment of the jaded, tough-as-nails private eye that has become a universal archtype in detective fiction, becomes caught up in ... Read More
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I'm a big fan of pulp/hard-boiled fiction. I recently started reading the "classics". I found Dashiell Hammett to be a wonderful author. His prose is very minimal and tight. I loved the style.
The story is a great one. Who doesn't love Sam Spade? I loved the character. Wish he would have made a lot more with him.
Definitely give this one a go.
I can't wait to see the classic film now.
Happy reading, doll.
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It was the portly Continental Op who usually played the starring role in Dashiell Hammett's written adventures. Sam Spade, tough guy private detective, was never a major character in the books, actually appearing in only one of Hammett's novels. But what a novel! It has been said that Hammett took crime fiction out of the wood-paneled libraries of tweed wearing detectives and put the thugs in the back alleys where they belonged.
Such a back alley is where Sam Spade's partner gets ... Read More
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Plenty of raves for The Maltese Falcon abound as it remains the most quintessential detective story. I actually agree but think otherwise for several points. While the writing at times is good and stylish, Dashiell Hammett can at times be intermittent as he keeps the story taut and then lets it loose. Sometimes, the pacing is fast and slow and fast. The characters are every now and then annoying; take for instance, Brigid O'Shaughnessey, she can be boring with her talk when she goes in circles without ... Read More
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The Maltese Falcon is nothing to write home about. It's a good book, and I recommend it, but it is nothing discernibly "special." You don't finish it and go, "Wow!"
Hammett knew his onions when it came to the milieu of the private dick, and creates a memorable story and fleshy characters, but some of the plot points are a bit toooo sweaty. (Surprisingly for a commie author, Hammett omits any hint of politics...to his credit, and the book's.)
The MLA wants us to believe that The ... Read More
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