The Maltese Falcon

Author: Dashiell Hammett

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Price : $27.99 NZD
ISBN : 9780752847641
Publisher : Orion Publishing Co
Imprint : Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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Weight (g) : 0.21
Publication date : 01 March 2002
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Dashiell Hammett
Series : Crime Masterworks
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Pages : 224
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The greatest crime novel of the 20th century launches Orion's Crime Masterworks series

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#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

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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.