The Maltese Falcon - Sam Spade - Dashiell Hammett; Franklin Library

THE MALTESE FALCON Dashiell Hammett LIKE NEW CONDITION, with clean pages, no writing, no dog ears or rips, and structurally sound. Silver endpaper (all three sides), raised spine hubs.

The Maltese Falcon is a hard-boiled detective novel by Dashiell Hammett about private investigator Sam Spade, who is drawn into a complex web of deception, murder, and greed after his partner is killed. The case revolves around a priceless, jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon that multiple criminals, including the mysterious Brigid O'Shaughnessy and the formidable "Fat Man" Casper Gutman, are willing to kill for. Spade navigates the dangerous underworld of 1920s San Francisco to solve the murder of his partner, ultimately confronting his own moral code and the corrupting nature of the quest for the falcon.