The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon is a crime novel by Dashiell Hammett, published in 1930. It is in the public domain in the US.
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  • Reading time: 6 to 7 hours
  • Setting: San Francisco, California, in the late 1920s
  • Premise: Sam Spade is a private investigator in San Francisco. Miss Wonderly asks him to help convince her sister to come back home after she ran away with a man called Floyd Thursby. Miles Archer, Sam's investigative partner, sets himself to shadow the man. But the next day, Miles is found dead... and Floyd Thursby as well! Is Sam Spade a suspect? And to add to the mystery, Miss Wonderly confesses to Sam that she lied about everything...