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Description
Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, stars in Hammett's detective fiction, a novel that has haunted 2 generations of readers.
Summary
Sam Spade is a partner in a detective agency who finds himself in trouble with the police when his partner is killed while trying to follow a man. The lady who asked him to follow the man turns out te be completely lying and is really searching for something called the Maltese Falcon, which is... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Iva Archer: miles archer's wife
- Miles Archer: A partner in the Spade and Archer detective agency
- Joel Cairo: A man in search of the Maltese Falcon
- lieutenant Dundy: One of the policemen who bother Spade about the murder of Miles Archer.
- Captain Jacobi: Carried the falcon from Hong Kong for Brigid
- Brigid O'Shaughnessy: hired spand ean archer with a lie that she was searching for her sister, when really she was looking for the Maltese Falcon. Lied about here name, as being Miss Wonderly
- Effie Perine: Sam Spade's Secretary.
- Tom Polhaus: Spade's police friend, who quentions him about Miles death.
First Sentence
Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth.
Table of Contents
1. Spade & Archer
2. Death In The Fog
3. Three Women
4. The Black Bird
5. The Levantine
6. The Undersized Shadow
7. G In The Air
8. Horse Feathers
9. Brigid
10. The Belvedere Divan
11. The Fat Man
12. Merry-Go-Round
13. The Emperor's Gift
14. La Paloma
15. Every Crackpot
16. The Third Murder
17. Saturday Night
18. The Fall-Guy
19. The Russian's Hand
20. If They Hang You
Authors & Contributors
- Dashiell Hammett (Author)
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