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A coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy. 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 name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop...
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Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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"When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favors, and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a second skin. We know that his late partner, Miles Archer, was a son of a bitch; that Spade is sleeping with Archer's wife, Iva; that his tomboyish secretary, Effie Perine, is the only innocent in his life. What we don't know is how Spade became who he...
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Essential classics. Dramas volume 1
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette.
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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After his older brother, a fledgling private detective, agrees to safeguard a package for a dwarf who does not live long, thirteen-year-old Nick scampers to solve the mystery while also trying to stay one step ahead of an assortment of thugs.
11) Complete novels
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Library of America volume 110
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Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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In this fully casted audio dramatization, a beautiful damsel in distress hires San Francisco private investigators Sam Spade and Miles Archer to trail the man whom she thinks kidnapped her sister. When Archer is murdered on a stakeout, however, Spade is implicated in the crime. However, that is only the tip of the iceberg. As Spade digs deeper into the case, he uncovers a much greater mystery involving a valuable statue and an assortment of colorful...
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Warner Home Video ; [United States]
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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The first adaptation of The Maltese facon, in which detective Sam Spade searches for a rare statuette while trying to solve the murder of his partner.
Satan met a lady is a lighthearted comic adaptation of the story, with William Warren as "Ted Shane" in search of a rare ram's horn, and Bette Davis as a blonde schemer.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
2025.
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English
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"American Noir Film explores how the popular genre and its tropes evolved from the early classics to neo-noir and beyond while maintaining the distinct features audiences love. Movies discussed range from Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard to Chinatown and Devil in a Blue Dress and recent films Under the Silver Lake and Promising Young Woman"--
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Ace performer collection volume 1
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Vince Emery Productions
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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Lost Stories rescues 21 long-unavailable Dashiell Hammett stories from the first fiction he wrote to the last, each with an explanation of how the author's life shaped his story and how the story fits in his life.
18) Satan met a lady
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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In this early, comedic version of "The Maltese Falcon," jaded gumshoe Ted Shane (Warren William) is hired by enigmatic Valerie Purvis (Bette Davis) to find a man who spurned her. When Shane's partner and his mark both wind up murdered, the detective suspects that Valerie may be harboring some secrets. Soon, Shane has another client: Mrs. Barabbas (Alison Skipworth), a woman who's searching for a legendary jeweled ram's horn that quickly becomes sought...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Disc 1: The Maltese falcon: Some high-living lowlifes want to get their hands on a bejeweled falcon. Detective Sam Spade wants to find out why and find out who will take the fall for his partner's murder. The big sleep: L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and ends up wearing out his gumshoes trailing murderers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more.
Disc 2: Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her...
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