The Maltese Falcon
Author(s): Dashiell Hammett
The greatest crime novel of the 20th century launches Orion's Crime Masterworks series
General Information
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- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- : 0.21
- : 01 March 2002
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Dashiell Hammett
- : Paperback
- : 224
More About The Product
#1 in the Crime Masterworks series - a library of the finest crime novels and thrillers ever published Voted the best hard-boiled novel of the 20th century by the Mystery Writers of America 'Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse ... he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all' - Raymond Chandler
B.1894, d.1961. After spells as newsboy, freight clerk, labourer, messenger, stevedore and advertising manager, Hammett became an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundation for his writing career.