The Maltese Falcon (Everyman's Library classics)

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Synopsis: As an operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency Dashiell Hammett knew about sleuthing from the inside, but his career was cut short by the ruin of his health in World War I. These three celebrated novels are therefore the products of a hard real life, not a literary education. Despite – or because of – that, Hammett had an enormous effect on mainstream writers between the wars. Like his readers, they were attracted by the combination of laconic style, sharp convincing dialogue, vivid settings and, above all, the low-life, hard-boiled characters who populate the streets of his stories. Taking detective fiction out of the drawing-room, Hammett ‘gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it’, as Raymond Chandler said. In so doing, he left his mark on modern fiction.

Review: Dashiell Hammett . . . is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer. The Boston Globe
The Maltese Falcon is not only probably the best detective story we have ever read, it is an exceedingly well written novel. The Times Literary Supplement (London)
Hammett s prose [is] clean and entirely unique. His characters [are] as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction. The New York Times
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-Dashiell Hammett . . . is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer.- -The Boston Globe
-The Maltese Falcon is not only probably the best detective story we have ever read, it is an exceedingly well written novel.- -The Times Literary Supplement (London)
-Hammett's prose [is] clean and entirely unique. His characters [are] as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction.- -The New York Times
"Dashiell Hammett . . . is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer." -The Boston Globe

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Maltese Falcon (Everyman's Library ...
Publisher: Everyman
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used; Very Good