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The Maltese falcon
Title:
The Maltese falcon
Edition:
1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
Physical Description:
10 books (217 pages) in a cloth bag ; 16 x 18 cm. + 1 reading group guide folder
General Note:
A cloth bag containing 10 copies of the title and a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.
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.
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