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This novel is a classic from 1929. The detective is Sam Spade located in San Francisco and one of the first hard-boil detective genre. Spade and his partner are hired by a woman and soon his partner is dead. This woman isn't telling the truth, uses her feminine whiles to get her way and Sam has to dig for the clues to who murdered his partner and why. Of course it all involves the Maltese Falcon. It's a quick read. I liked it much better than The Thin Man. This book is one of the 100 best on th
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A good example of the noir type of mystery. Sam Spade definitely depicts the hard boiled detective of this era. Sam's partner is murdered and he becomes involved with a group of people searching for the elusive falcon.
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Sep 25, 2015
Sorobai
marked it as to-read
Jun 17, 2017
Yvonne
marked it as to-read
