The Maltese Falcon (Heathen Edition)

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was an American author widely recognized as the trailblazer of hard-boiled detective fiction with his unsentimental, breakneck storytelling chock-full of fast-paced, slangy dialogue and abrupt, explosive violence. In 1930 he published The Maltese Falcon, the novel that sharpened the genre to a lethal point, unveiling Sam Spade - a private eye with a moral code all his own and a talent for keeping his face as unreadable as a blank ledger. In a San Francisc...