Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Maltese Falcon
- Publisher:
- Orion Publishing Group, 03/2005
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780752865331
- Item number:
- 2016413
- Volume:
- 213 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2005
- Weight:
- 217 g
- Format:
- 200 x 128 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 24.3.2005
- Series:
- Murder Room
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
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Short description
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 finds him?
Blurb
The character Sam Spade is now the subject of a brand new TV series, MONSIEUR SPADE, starring Clive Owen.
One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century.
'His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow' Independent
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 finds him?
Biography
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland and worked in a number of menial jobs until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career.
