The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett : 16 results priced between £2.00 and £25.00

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It's San Francisco, 1928, and Sam Spade is a wisecracking, womanising private investigator. Missing husbands and unfaithful wives are his usual stock-in-trade, but when the beautifully distressed Miss Wonderley calls, he gets involved in a dangerous caper most people would run a mile from.

Previously only available serialised over seven issues of "The Armchair Detective" magazine, this examination is the single most influential book-length analysis of Dashiell Hammett's novels. Spanning all sections of his career, the book discusses five novels: "The Dain Curse", "The Glass Key", "The Maltese Falcon", "Red Harvest", and "The Thin Man". Detailed analysis shows how the author and his work changed over time. Each novel is discussed in its own chapter with comparative criticism, and there...

The Maltese Falcon" is widely lauded since its original publication in 1930. In its movie adaptation, it not only birthed American film noir but also ranks as one of..."

Offers an analysis of Dashiell Hammett's novels. Spanning the various sections of his career, this book discusses five novels: The Dain Curse", "The Glass Key", "The..."

THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) set the standard by which the private eye genre is judged. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man...

The Maltese Falcon [DVD]

A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder. An all-star cast (including Sydney Greenstreet Mary Astor Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr.) joins Bogart in this crackling mystery masterwork written for the screen (from Dashiell Hammett's novel) and directed by John Huston. This nominee for 3 Academy Awards - Best...

To most people The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade are all about Humphrey Bogart and the birth of Film Noir, but to fans of the printed page they are all about Dashiell Hammett's ability to create such believably authentic characters within a world of such compelling mystery. Hammett was able to draw us in and keep us guessing without ever needing to resort to the wilfully manipulative plot twists or showing off what great intellect he had in the way so beloved by many lesser writers - and let us not...

Release Date: 2006-06-01, Rating: Parental Guidance

Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon , first serialized in a magazine in 1930, is best known through the iconic Humphrey Bogart film of 1941. But it was the book that created the classic "noir" genre with its tough private detective threading his cool way between the criminals and the law. Sam Spade, the private eye solving the mystery of the Maltese statuette, was the template for Philip Marlowe and a host of others. But they come no more shrewd and cunning with Hammett peppering the text with...

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