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Product Identifiers

PublisherBlackstone Audio, Incorporated

ISBN-10143325249X

ISBN-139781433252495

eBay Product ID (ePID)26038572046

Product Key Features

Publication Year2008

TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / General

Book TitleMaltese Falcon

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorDashiell Hammet

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Length5.7 In.

Item Width5.2 In.

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

Number of Volumes3 vols.

Adapted byRasovsky, Yuri

Dewey Decimal813/.52

Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition,Adapted edition

Synopsis"Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be. That kind of reputation might be good business."--Samuel Spade, private investigator "Spade...is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached."--Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929. Almost immediately it was acknowledged as not only a great crime novel but an enduring masterpiece of American fiction. Sam Spade, its protagonist, is the archetypal tough, cynical PI, "able," as his creator explained, "to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent bystander or client." And what a client!--the irresistible and treacherous femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy. Believing the book's vividly drawn characters and memorable dialogue cry out for theatrical treatment, Blackstone Audio commissioned this faithful dramatization by the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear, in which a brilliant cast brings to life all the excitement and suspense of Hammett's original in the playhouse of the mind., "Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be. That kind of reputation might be good business."--Samuel Spade, private investigator "Spade...is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached."--Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929. Almost immediately it was acknowledged as not only a great crime novel but an enduring masterpiece of American fiction. Sam Spade, its protagonist, is the archetypal tough, cynical PI, "able," as his creator explained, "to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent bystander or client." And what a client --the irresistible and treacherous femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy. Believing the book's vividly drawn characters and memorable dialogue cry out for theatrical treatment, Blackstone Audio commissioned this faithful dramatization by the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear, in which a brilliant cast brings to life all the excitement and suspense of Hammett's original in the playhouse of the mind.

Number of Pages4 pages