Reviews for The Maltese Falcon
Review - Maltese Falcon, The
It may have been the first hard-boiled detective story, but I thought it was poached. I didn't like the movie either.
Reviewed by Roger on 2003-07-21 07:56:50
The Maltese Falconby Dashiell Hammett | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Mystery" |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Year of Publication: | 1929 |
| Date Read: | 09/18/1994 |
| Notes: | The major attraction of The Maltese Falcon is its colorful cast of characters; they include the antiheroic detective Sam Spade; Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a deceptive beauty; Joel Cairo, an effete Levantine whose gun gives him courage; the very fat and jovial but sinister Caper Gutman; and Gutman’s “gunsel” Wilmer, eager to be feared. All of them are looking for the Maltese falcon, a fabulously valuable 16th-century artifact. COMMENTS — The Maltese Falcon was originally published as a serial in Black Mask magazine. |
| My Rating: | 4 |