The Maltese Falcon
Автор:
Dashiell HammettЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2026-01-01Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
66
Description
Sam Spade and his partner Miles are private detectives in San Francisco. When the mysterious Miss Wonderly walks into their office begging them to trail a man who has run off with her sister, Sam finds himself embroiled in a complex web of violence, greed, and deceit, all revolving around a mysterious artifact—the titular Maltese Falcon.
The Maltese Falcon is a jewel in the crown of the “hardboiled” crime genre, and one its best-known works. Hammett writes a tight and lean story in which no character, not even the hero or the police, can be said to be “good.”
It was first serialzed in Black Mask magazine in 1929, before undergoing edits for...
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