The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett from 1929. This story about private detective Sam Spade was the basis of the American hard crime genre ("hard-boiled fiction"). In 1941 The Maltese Falcon was a successful film noir with Humphrey Bogart.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Sam Spade and Archer detective agency in San Francisco have a Miles. Commissioned by a certain Miss Wonderly to Archer Floyd Thursby shadows, a man who would know where her missing sister is. During this night job is both Archer and Thursby shot. The police considers the taciturn Spade as a suspect because he had an affair with Archers wife Iva. Miss Wonderly turns out in reality, Brigid O'Shaughnessy to be called and she has no sister.
 * 2 Characters
 * Background 3
 * 4 film adaptations

Spade is visited by Joel Cairo, who offers him $ 5000 for the Maltese Falcon, but Spade don't know what he's talking about. He notes that he is shadowed by a boy, Wilmer Cook. He discovers that his henchmen of Casper Gutman, Cairo and Cook an obese villain who is looking for years the Maltese Falcon. This Falcon was a sixteenth-century gift of the order of Malta to the King of Spain. It consists of valuable jewels with a black glaze as camouflage. Brigid O'Shaughnessy and Floyd Thursby worked prior to Gutman, but then they are on your own to find the Falcon.

An injured man who with the ship arrived in San Francisco is La Paloma, brings a pack in at Spade, and dies. The Pack contains the Maltese Falcon. Gutman buys the valk for $ 10,000, but she turns out to be fake.Spade gives the money back, but keeps $ 1,000 as reimbursement of expenses. Then leave Gutman and Cairo. Wilmer Cook has now fled because he did not as a scapegoat for the murder of Archer and Thursby would act.

Spade tells Brigid that he knows they Archer shot has. Her intent was to run for that murder of Thursby. Brigid begs Spade to not to extradite her to the police, but he is adamant. When the police arrest her that Wilmer Cook, comes this tells Gutman shot has. ==Characters[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Maltese Falcon was one of the first hard crime novels.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  In contrast to the classic British detective novel he plays gangster in the environment of an American large city (San Francisco). Sam Spade is a tough guy who carries a weapon and regularly with someone going to blows. Typical is also the role of the seductive O'Shaugnessy, whose long time remains unclear whether she is a good woman or a femme fatale.
 * Sam Spade: a private detective in San Francisco.
 * Spade's partner Miles Archer:.
 * Iva Archer: the wife of Miles.
 * Effie Perine: the Secretary of Spade and Archer.
 * Brigid O'Shaughnessy: a client of Spade and Archer.
 * Floyd Thursby to Spade and Archer: a man who shadows.
 * A police detective Lieutenant Dundy (similar to an Inspector).
 * A police detective Polhaus: Sergeant (brigadier).
 * Joel Cairo: a man who works for Gutman.
 * Wilmer Cook: a guy who works for Gutman.
 * Casper Gutman: an obese villain who for years in search of the Falcon.

<p lang="en" len="460" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;font-family:sans-serif;color:rgb(15,15,95);">The Maltese Falcon is a classic example of a macguffin: a subject that everyone wants to get in hands and that the plot vooruitstuwt.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Hammett would Sam Spade's apartment on his own apartment in Post Street, San Francisco based have.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2] ==Film Adaptations<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * The Maltese Falcon (1931)
 * Satan Met a Lady (1936)
 * The Maltese Falcon (1941)