# The Maltese Falcon

by [Dashiell Hammett](https://localbooks.app/authors/dashiell-hammett)

- Genres: [Hard-boiled și noir](https://localbooks.app/genres/mystery/hard-boiled-and-noir), [Detectivi particulari](https://localbooks.app/genres/mystery/private-investigator)
- Set in: [San Francisco, Калифорния, Statele Unite ale Americii](https://localbooks.app/places/us/california/san-francisco)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1930
- Pages: 254

## Description

When his partner is shot dead on a San Francisco street, private detective Sam Spade gets tangled with a beautiful liar, a perfumed fixer and a fat man, all chasing a jewel-encrusted statuette of a bird.

## Where to buy

- [Open Library (ebook)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL47266W)
- [Project Gutenberg (ebook)](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The%20Maltese%20Falcon)

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