Tuesday, January 14, 2020

THE MALTESE FALCON - Dashiell Hammett

























A treasure worth killing for.  Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his solitary code of ethics.  A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Bridget O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime.

The original noir private eye author at the top of his game.  Most will have seen the film but the books streets ahead.

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