ISBN13: 9780679722649</br>Condition: New</br>Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!</br></br>Product Description</br></br>A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade?? a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo?? a fat man name Gutman?? and Brigid O??Shaughnessy?? a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett??s coolly glittering gem of detective fiction?? a novel that has haunted three generations of readers.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>Sam Spade?? Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco  detective?? is more <i>noir</i> than <I>L.A. Confidential</I> and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe.  In <I>The Maltese Falcon</I>?? the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (including <I>The Dain Curse</I> and <I>The Glass Key</I>)?? Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the police?? risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for his help?? while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the next moment.<p>  Spade's partner is murdered on a sta"s blame him for the killing; a beautiful redhead with a heartbreaking story appears and disappears; grotesque villains demand a payoff he can't provide; and everyone wants a fabulously valuable gold statuette of a falcon?? created as tribute for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Who has it? And what will it take to get it back? Spade's solution is as c