The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
Hardcover
(Knopf, Sept. 3, 1957)
A novel of how Sam Spade and Miles Archer are hired by a Miss Wonderly to follow a man, Floyd Thursby, who has allegedly run off with Wonderly's younger sister. Spade and Archer take the assignment because the money is good, but Spade implies that the woman looks like trouble.
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