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Literary Thoughts edition
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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett





"The Maltese Falcon" is a 1930 published detective novel by Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), telling the story of San Francisco based private detective Samuel «Sam» Spade, who gets hired by a beautiful young woman, «Miss Wonderly», to follow a guy named Floyd Thursby. Sam Spade and his partner Miles Archer take the job, but later that night, Archer is found shot to death. A few hours later, Thursby is also killed and Spade is a suspect. Sam Spade finds out, that it is all about the title object, a foot-high black statuette of unknown but substantial value.

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Literary Thoughts edition
presents
The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories by Dashiell Hammett





"The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories" is a collection of seven short stories (three of them with Detective Sam Spade), written by American author of detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961):
* Too Many Have Lived * They Can Only Hang You Once * A Man Called Spade * The Assistant Murderer * Night Shade * The Judge Laughed Last * His Brother's Keeper.

All books of the Literary Thoughts edition have been transscribed from original prints and edited for better reading experience.
Please visit our homepage literarythoughts.com to see our other publications.

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"The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories" is a collection of seven short stories, written and published in 1924 by American author of detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961):
* Too Many Have Lived * They Can Only Hang You Once * A Man Called Spade * The Assistant Murderer * Night Shade * The Judge Laughed Last * His Brother's Keeper