Book · 1929 · Fiction
The Maltese Falcon
Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 217 pages
★ 6.5 editorial score
Chandler said Hammett took murder out of the Venetian vase and dropped it into the alley. His detective Sam Spade loses a partner, trusts nobody, and chases a black statuette worth killing for.
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