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Tough, cynical PI Sam Spade 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.

When the gorgeous and mysterious "Miss Wonderly" walks into the shabby San Francisco office of Spade and Archer, she brings with her a story about a missing sister, a stack of cash—and enough trouble to get a man killed. Before the night is over, Sam Spade's partner is dead, shot down in a dark alley. The police think Spade pulled the trigger. And suddenly he's caught in a deadly game with a gang of thieves who will lie, cheat, and murder to possess a priceless statuette—the jewel-encrusted Maltese Falcon.

Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, first published in 1930, is one of the greatest crime novels of all times, inspiring numerous spinoffs in film, television, and theater. The hero, Sam Spade, is a hard-bitten and ethically ambiguous detective who is approached by the beautiful and mysterious Miss Wonderly to track down her missing sister. Spade’s partner, Miles Archer, steps in, only to be shot that very night. Spade’s honor as a detective requires him to track down Archer’s killer.

Follow private detective Sam Spade as he navigates a web of deceit, betrayal, and murder in pursuit of the elusive black bird. With Vendetti's commanding narration and Howlett's evocative portrayal of Brigid O'Shaughnessy, this audiobook delivers the tension, intrigue, and drama of Hammett's classic like never before. Experience the sharp dialogue, unforgettable characters, and twists that defined the golden age of detective fiction. Perfect for fans of crime thrillers and timeless mysteries.

"I have two proposals to make, sir, and either is fair. Take your choice. I will give you twenty-five thousand when you deliver the falcon, and another twenty-five thousand as soon as I get to New York; or I will give you one quarter—twenty-five percent—of what I realize on the falcon. There you are, sir: an almost immediate fifty thousand dollars or a vastly greater sum within, say, a couple of months."

Brilliant detective Sam Spade is the quintessential private eye, with his own code of ethics. When a standard stakeout goes wrong and Spade’s partner is killed, he finds himself drawn into the hunt for a fantastic treasure of dubious origin—a golden bird encrusted with jewels. But he’s not the only one on the trail of the falcon. Hot on his heels are Joel Cairo, a perfumed grifter; an oversized adventurer named Gutman; and Spade’s new client Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful but treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a hat.

Legendary mystery writer Dashiell Hammett only wrote one novel about detective Sam Spade: The Maltese Falcon, the most famous private eye story ever told. But the case was never really solved—the priceless golden, bejeweled bird that men and women had been dying to possess turned out to be a fake.

Detective Sam Spade gets mixed up in a hardboiled mystery after the murder of his partner.

Serge A. Storms is back on the road in the latest zany Florida caper from the “wickedly funny” (Entertainment Weekly) Tim Dorsey. After a long and arduous COVID-19 quarantine, Serge A. Storms is fully vaccinated and ready to hit the road. Along with his condo neighbors, he cooks up a wild...

The Maltese is a pampered lap dog. The Yorkshire terrier has a working class background. What happens when they’re bred together? Introducing the Morkie - a silky ball of fun in a wee, puppy body!

A story about privacy and its importance for happiness and personal fulfillment.

Il testo nasce dalla gioia estrema del ritorno alla vita a seguito di un coma e descrive uno tra i tanti casi di malasanità italiana... Conclusosi fortunatamente con un trasferimento in terra austriaca (Innsbruck) che mi salvò la vita! Nel testo, rimaneggiato molte volte nel corso degli anni, si evince un cambiamento di prospettiva dato dalla maturazione e dallo sviluppo, quindi anche le esperienze vengono lette in modo differente...

Questo romanzo racconta l'evoluzione di una giovane donna, della quale non si conoscerà mai il nome, abituata ormai a misurare sé stessa attraverso i legami e le prove che la vita quotidiana fa accadere. I personaggi, alcuni concreti ed altri onirici, si muoveranno alternandosi accanto alla storia personale di lei e all'interno delle relazioni che costruisce con ciascuno di loro, come sopra ad una scacchiera nella quale i colori assumono infinite sfumature.

"Кинжал с мальтийским крестом" - третий роман Марты Таро из увлекательного цикла "Галантный детектив", в котором карты Таро предлагают читателям новую загадку, жанр исторический детектив. Графиня Любовь Чернышева обожает музыку и поэзию, а ещё она искренне верит в прекрасную сущность людей. Подражая Татьяне Лариной, она пишет любовное послание князю Александру Шварценбергу, вот только признание застает её избранника врасплох.

Hugo Pratt, con “Una ballata del mare salato” realizzò nel 1967 un fumetto estremamente innovativo. In quest’indimenticabile avventura corale compare per la prima volta il suo ironico antieroe, Corto Maltese.

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It’s San Francisco, 1928, and Sam Spade is a wisecracking, womanising Private Investigator. Missing husbands and unfaithful wives are his usual stock-in-trade, but when the beautifully distressed Miss Wonderley calls he gets involved in a dangerous caper most people would run a mile from...

earworms mbt® Rapid Maltese puts the words and phrases you need not just on the tip of your tongue, but also transports them deep into your long-term memory. Simply by listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions of Maltese and English a few times, the sound patterns are indelibly burned into your auditory cortex. You will have successfully learned the Maltese phrase and have the correct accent ringing in your ears.

This radio dramatization of the classic movie features the four original stars. It aired on September 20, 1943.

A friend has vanished, a mummy's amulet is missing, and there's a weirdo out there looking for human brains and hearts. The Chicagoland Detective Agency - run by Megan, Raf, and his talking dog Bradley - have more than enough cases on their hands (and paws). But where to start? Megan's too busy for private-detecting. Her haikus won her tickets to meet the drop-dead gorgeous rock star Sun D'Arc. Raf is sure that Sun is too good not to be really bad. He must be involved in one of their cases.