Format:
Book
Title:
The Maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett.
Author:
Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961.
Call Number:
FIC HAMMETT D
Edition:
1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
Description:
217 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted three generations of readers.
Series:
Vintage crime/Black Lizard
Vintage crime/Black Lizard.
Subjects:
Spade, Sam (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Private investigators -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Adult core collection.
Genre:
Mystery fiction.
ISBN:
9780679722649 (trade)
0679740945 (pbk.)
0679722645
0865471568 (reprint: San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987)