The Resource The Maltese falcon, Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese falcon, Dashiell Hammett
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The item The Maltese falcon, Dashiell Hammett represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The Maltese falcon, Dashiell Hammett represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- 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 named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's coolly glittering gem of detective fiction
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print ed.
- Extent
- 347 p. (large print)
- Isbn
- 9781597228985
- Label
- The Maltese falcon
- Title
- The Maltese falcon
- Statement of responsibility
- Dashiell Hammett
- Subject
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- trueSpade, Sam (Fictitious character)
- trueDishonesty
- trueExtramarital affairs
- trueFemmes fatales
- trueGems
- trueHardboiled fiction
- Large print books
- trueModern classics
- trueMurder
- trueMurder investigation
- trueMurder suspects
- trueMysteries
- trueMystery classics
- truePolice
- truePrivate investigators
- Private investigators -- California | San Francisco -- Fiction
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
- trueSan Francisco, California -- History -- 20th century
- trueSoviets in the United States
- Spade, Sam (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- trueWidows
- true1920s -- 1920 -- 1929
- trueBetrayal
- trueBooks to movies
- trueBusiness partners
- trueDeception
- trueDecoys
- Detective and mystery stories
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's coolly glittering gem of detective fiction
- Summary
- Sam Spade's partner is murdered while working on a case, and it is Spade's responsibility to find the killer. In his search, Spade runs mortal risks as he comes closer to the answer
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 032143
- Cataloging source
- HCO
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1894-1961
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hammett, Dashiell
- Dewey number
- 813.52
- Index
- no index present
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
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- 760
- 760
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Spade, Sam (Fictitious character)
- Private investigators
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Maltese falcon, Dashiell Hammett
- Control code
- 000043474371
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- Large print ed.
- Extent
- 347 p. (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781597228985
- Isbn Type
- (softcover : alk. paper)
- Label
- The Maltese falcon, Dashiell Hammett
- Control code
- 000043474371
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- Large print ed.
- Extent
- 347 p. (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781597228985
- Isbn Type
- (softcover : alk. paper)
Subject
- trueSpade, Sam (Fictitious character)
- trueDishonesty
- trueExtramarital affairs
- trueFemmes fatales
- trueGems
- trueHardboiled fiction
- Large print books
- trueModern classics
- trueMurder
- trueMurder investigation
- trueMurder suspects
- trueMysteries
- trueMystery classics
- truePolice
- truePrivate investigators
- Private investigators -- California | San Francisco -- Fiction
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
- trueSan Francisco, California -- History -- 20th century
- trueSoviets in the United States
- Spade, Sam (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- trueWidows
- true1920s -- 1920 -- 1929
- trueBetrayal
- trueBooks to movies
- trueBusiness partners
- trueDeception
- trueDecoys
- Detective and mystery stories
Genre
- Large print books
- trueModern classics
- trueMysteries
- trueMystery classics
- trueBooks to movies
- Detective and mystery stories
- Fiction
- trueHardboiled fiction
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