02741cim a2200457 i 4500 2791100957 TxAuBib 20250623120000.0 r 260609s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982525439 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book 1982525436 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book MWT12131506 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961, author. The Maltese Falcon [Hoopla] / Dashiell Hammett. Unabridged. [United States : Blackstone Publishing, 2019. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 52 min.)) : digital. spw rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. Read by Robertson Dean. The definitive masterpiece of the hard-boiled detective genre, The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929 and was almost immediately acknowledged as not only a great crime novel but an enduring masterpiece of American fiction.Tough, cynical PI Sam Spade-a man who, as his creator explained, is "able to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with"-is hired by the story's irresistible femme fatale, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, to locate the client's sister by tailing her companion. Spade's partner, Miles Archer, takes on the assignment, and quickly both he and the man he was shadowing are murdered. As Spade pursues the mystery of his partner's death, he is drawn into a circle of colorful characters-all of them after a legendary statuette of a falcon fashioned long ago for King Charles of Spain.Made of gold and encrusted with jewels, the falcon is worth a fortune. Missing for centuries, it resurfaced in Paris in 1911, covered in black enamel to disguise its value, and then disappeared again until it was traced to Constantinople-and now, it would seem, to Spade's own backyard. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla Audiobook. Crime Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft Historical fiction. fast Noir fiction. Suspense fiction. fast Thrillers (Fiction.) lcgft Fiction. lcgft Audiobooks. Dean, Robertson, reader. Hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12131506?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh3964 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/bsa_9781982525415_180.jpeg Cover image BSBPL