Maltese Falcon (Hammett - Dover ed.)

Author: Dashiel Hammett

ISBN: 9780486855356

Binding: paperback

Section: Mystery/Suspense

Detective Sam Spade is a lone wolf with an ambiguous moral compass. When his partner gets killed during a tense stakeout, he’s plunged headfirst into an entangled web of deceit, greed, and murder involving a priceless bejeweled bird — the Maltese Falcon. This groundbreaking gumshoe mystery transformed American detective stories into hard-boiled fiction, blurring the lines between hero and villain through the typical tough-guy archetype.