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The Maltese Falcon
- Author
- Dashiell Hammett
- Narrator
- Brian Tomason
- Publisher
- CLXBX
- Publish Date
- 6 February 2026
- Run Time
- 6 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Dashiell Hammett
- Narrator
- Brian Tomason
- Duration
- 6 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 February 2026
- ISBN
- 9782291592792
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- CLXBX
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Synopsis
The Maltese Falcon is Dashiell Hammett's landmark novel of crime, power, and moral restraint. Set in a world governed by deception and desire, the story follows private detective Sam Spade as he navigates a web of lies, shifting alliances, and calculated violence in pursuit of a legendary object whose value is as symbolic as it is corrupting. Hammett's prose is lean, precise, and unsentimental. Emotion is withheld, motives are obscured, and morality is defined not by ideals but by conduct under pressure. The investigation unfolds as a study of control—of language, of bodies, of truth itself. Cool, exacting, and relentlessly modern, The Maltese Falcon established the foundations of hard-boiled fiction and remains a definitive portrait of power exercised without illusion.
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