The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
Category: Bestsellers
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Tags: Bestsellers, Crime, Detective
Published: October 10th 2019 Length: 7hrs 51mins, The definitive masterpiece of the hard-boiled detective genre, The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929 and was almost immediately acknowledged as not only a great crime novel but an enduring masterpiece of American fiction., Tough, cynical PI Sam Spade - a man who, as his creator explained, is able to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with - is hired by the storys irresistible femme fatale, Brigid OShaughnessy, to locate the clients sister by tailing her companion. Spades partner, Miles Archer, takes on the assignment, and quickly both he and the man he was shadowing are murdered. As Spade pursues the mystery of his partners death, he is drawn into a circle of colorful characters - all of them after a legendary statuette of a falcon fashioned long ago for King Charles of Spain., Made of gold and encrusted with jewels, the falcon is worth a for
