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Product Description: One of Hammett's masterpieces, this is the most vivid and realistic picture of gang war ever written--and one of the most exciting of all suspense novels.
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Hardcover:

9781883402952 | Otto Penzler Books, February 28, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The murder of the last honest citizen in Poisonville prompts the Continental Op to seek out the guilty, in a facsimile edition of the classic exploration of corruption and violence, first published in 1929.

Paperback:

9780679722618 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 1, 1992), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: When a hard-fighting detective arrives in Personville and finds that his client has been murdered, he decides to investigate local gangland activities
9780893406080 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, June 1, 1983), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780753107058 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, December 1, 2000), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781856957076 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, January 1, 1996), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town.

Prebinding:

9781439507292 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: One of Hammett's masterpieces, this is the most vivid and realistic picture of gang war ever written--and one of the most exciting of all suspense novels.

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Amazon.com Review: Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (including The Dain Curse and The Glass Key), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the police, risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for his help, while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the next moment...read more
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Hardcover:

9780783894591, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, August 1, 2001), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A treasure worth killing for.
9780754046431, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Largeprint edition (Chivers, June 1, 2001), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Amazon.
9780848824365 | Amereon Ltd, December 1, 2000, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A murder involves Sam Spade in a dangerous search for a valuable statue.
9781883402150, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Reissue edition (Otto Penzler Books, September 1, 1993), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A facsimile reprint of this work's first edition features a mystery that introduces the immortal Sam Spade and a cast of characters that includes the amoral vamp Brigid O'Shaughnessy and the sinister fat man Caspar Gutman.
9780865471566 | Reprint edition (North Point Pr, April 1, 1984), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A murder involves Sam Spade in a dangerous search for a valuable statue
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Paperback:

9781597228985, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, January 21, 2009), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
9780754046448, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 2001), cover price $22.01 | About this edition: A treasure worth killing for.
9780679722649, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, August 1, 1992), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A murder involves Sam Spade in a dangerous search for a valuable statue
9780553065091 | Bantam Books, June 1, 1985, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780792735908, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, January 1, 2005), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A facsimile reprint of this work's first edition features a mystery that introduces the immortal Sam Spade and a cast of characters that includes the amoral vamp Brigid O'Shaughnessy and the sinister fat man Caspar Gutman.
9781572703643 | Unabridged edition (Audiogo, February 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A murder investigation requires Detective Sam Spade to become involved in a dangerous search for a valuable statue.
9780753107003, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, November 1, 1999), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: A facsimile reprint of this work's first edition features a mystery that introduces the immortal Sam Spade and a cast of characters that includes the amoral vamp Brigid O'Shaughnessy and the sinister fat man Caspar Gutman.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781572703636, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Unabridged edition (Audio Partners, February 1, 2004), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A murder investigation requires Detective Sam Spade to become involved in a dangerous search for a valuable statue.
9780736667548, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Abridged edition (Books on Tape, April 1, 2001), cover price $29.95
9781856957960 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, January 1, 1996), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
9780899261416, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Cassette Works Audio, October 1, 1985, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A treasure worth killing for.

Reinforced:

9780606124119, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Reissue edition (Demco Media, August 1, 1992), cover price $21.17 | About this edition: A murder involves Sam Spade in a dangerous search for a valuable statue

Prebinding:

9781439507315, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A treasure worth killing for.
9780808575375, titled "The Maltese Falcon" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $24.45 | About this edition: A murder involves Sam Spade in a dangerous search for a valuable statue

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Nick Charles searches for a wealthy inventor who is the prime suspect in a New York City murder case.
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Hardcover:

9781883402709 | Reprint edition (Otto Penzler Books, June 1, 2001), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Nick and Nora Charles search for a wealthy inventor who has become the prime suspect in a notorious New York City murder case, in a facsimile edition of the 1934 mystery in which the glamorous husband-and-wife team of sleuths made their debut.
9780783894607 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, May 1, 2001), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Retirement suited Nick.

Paperback:

9780679722632 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 1, 1992), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Nick Charles searches for a wealthy inventor who is the prime suspect in a New York City murder case
9780893403294 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, June 1, 1982), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Retirement suited Nick.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781572704435 | Unabridged edition (Audio Partners, March 30, 2005), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Nick Charles searches for a wealthy inventor who is the prime suspect in a New York City murder case.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781572704428 | Unabridged edition (Audio Partners, March 30, 2005), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Nick Charles searches for a wealthy inventor who is the prime suspect in a New York City murder case.
9780898455915 | Caedmon Audio Cassette, January 1, 1988, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Nick Charles searches for a wealthy inventor who is the prime suspect in a New York City murder case.

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Hardcover:

9780972589857 | Vince Emery Prod, March 30, 2009, cover price $24.95

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From the American inventor of hard-boiled crime fiction comes a riveting collection containing The Dain Curse featuring the author's tough, antihero detective, the Continental Op, and The Glass Key, as well as four linked stories--'The House in Turk Street,' 'The Girl with the Silver Eyes,' 'The Big Knockover,' and '$106,000 Blood Money.' 10,000 first printing.
By James Ellroy (introduced by) and Dashiell Hammett
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Hardcover:

9780307266699, titled "The Dain Curse, the Glass Key and Selected Stories" | Everymans Library, September 4, 2007, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A compilation of works by one of the most popular writers of American, hard-boiled crime fiction features the tough, antihero detective, the Continental Op, who narrates four linked stories and the novel, 'The Dain Curse.

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Paperback:

9788420604572, titled "Una mujer en la oscuridad / A Women in Darkness" | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $10.95

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Product Description: La audaz mezcla de realismo descarnado y sentimientos romanticos, habitual en la narrativa de Dashiel Hammett (1894-1961), alcanza en el Halcon Maltes, su mejor plasmacion. Una estatuilla con figura de halcon que los caballeros de la orden de Malta regalaron al emperador Carlos V en 1530 han sido objeto, durante cuatro siglos, de robos y extravios...read more
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Hardcover:

9788420666891, titled "El halcon maltes / The Maltese Falcon" | Alianza Editorial Sa, September 30, 2006, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: La audaz mezcla de realismo descarnado y sentimientos romanticos, habitual en la narrativa de Dashiel Hammett (1894-1961), alcanza en el Halcon Maltes, su mejor plasmacion.

Paperback:

9788420637587, titled "El halcon maltes / The Maltese Falcon" | Alianza Editorial Sa, February 1, 1969, cover price $14.95

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Paperback:

9789507222467 | Ediciones Andromeda, January 9, 2006, cover price $8.95

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'Dashiell Hammett is an original. He is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' Boston Globe
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Paperback:

9780752867519 | Orion Pub Co, September 15, 2005, cover price $12.35 | About this edition: 'Dashiell Hammett is an original.

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Paperback:

9788420640877 | Italian edition edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2005), cover price $14.95

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An introduction to the work of master detective writer Dashiell Hammett and his legendary characters--Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, and the Continental Op--features selections from The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest, 'Tulip' from The Big Knockover, and 'The Whosis Kid' from The Continental Op. Original. 15,000 first printing.
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Paperback:

9781400079629 | Vintage Books, January 25, 2005, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: An introduction to the work of Dashiell Hammett and his legendary characters, --Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, and the Continental Op--and featuring selections from some of his classic works.

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This collection brings together the very best of Dashiell Hammett's early stories featuring the Continental Op, the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.
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Paperback:

9780752856179 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, July 15, 2004), cover price $12.35 | About this edition: This collection brings together the very best of Dashiell Hammett's early stories featuring the Continental Op, the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.

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Paperback:

9788420655130, titled "El agente de la Continental / The Continental OP" | Italian edition edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2003), cover price $18.95

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Paperback:

9788420637594, titled "La llave de cristal / The Glass Key" | 2 edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, February 1, 2003), cover price $14.95

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A collection of letters--to friends, lovers, family, and colleagues--by the legendary crime writer reveals the man behind the author as he discusses the craft of writing, his personal life, and his literary creations, Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Paperback:

9781582432106 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, May 1, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of letters--to friends, lovers, family, and colleagues--by the legendary crime writer reveals the man behind the author as he discusses the craft of writing, his personal life, and his literary creations, Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles.

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A revealing look inside the mind of one of the great writers of detective fiction includes essays, 24 stories, and an early version The Thin Man. (view table of contents)
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Hardcover:

9781931082006 | Library of America, October 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A revealing look inside the mind of the one of the great writers of detective fiction includes essays, twenty-four stories, and an early version of 'The Thin Man.

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A collection of letters--to friends, lovers, family, and colleagues--by the legendary crime writer reveals the man behind the author as he discusses the craft of writing, his personal life, and his literary creations, Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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Hardcover:

9781582430812 | Counterpoint, May 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A collection of letters to friends, lovers, family, and colleagues by the legendary crime writer as he discussed the craft of writing, his personal life, and his literary creations.

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The author's three most famous noir novels are published together for the first time in this unique single-volume celebration of the imagination that produced Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles, among other giants of the genre. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)
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Hardcover:

9780375411250 | Everymans Library, November 1, 2000, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Three novels involving private detectives and shady characters tackle homicide, treachery, and corruption.

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The inimitable Sam Spade and the Continental Op take on new cases in a collection of long-unavailable short stories by the author of The Maltese Falcon, in an anthology of mysteries that also includes Hammett's first study for The Thin Man. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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Hardcover:

9780375401114 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The inimitable Sam Spade and the Continental Op take on new cases in a collection of long-unavailable short stories by the author of The Maltese Falcon, in an anthology of mysteries that also includes Hammett's first study for The Thin Man.

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Product Description: Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett's tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness...read more
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Paperback:

9780679722625, titled "The Glass Key" | Vintage Books, July 1, 1989, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds.
9780893403317 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, June 1, 1982), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780753109014, titled "The Glass Key" | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, February 1, 2000), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781856957120, titled "The Glass Key" | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, July 1, 1996), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds.

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The complete novels of Dashiell Hammett--including The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man--are collected here, offering a harrowing, realistic portrait of crime and introducing such memorable characters as Sam Spade. (view table of contents)
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Hardcover:

9781883011673 | Library of America, October 1, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The complete novels of Dashiell Hammett--including The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man--are collected here, offering a harrowing, realistic portrait of crime and introducing such memorable characters as Sam Spade.

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Paperback:

9788420646596, titled "Una mujer en la oscuridad / A Woman in the Dark" | Alianza Editorial Sa, February 1, 1996, cover price $2.50

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Amazon.com Review: Everything about the Leggett diamond heist indicated to the Continental Op that it was an inside job. From the stray diamond found in the yard to the eyewitness accounts of a "strange man" casing the house, everything was just too pat...read more
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Hardcover:

9780899661155 | Buccaneer Books, November 1, 1986, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective.
9780848810399 | Amereon Ltd, June 1, 1976, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective.

Paperback:

9780679722601, titled "The Dain Curse" | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 1989), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A routine investigation of a diamond robbery involves an insurance detective in a bizarre case of murder, and cult worship

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781856957175, titled "The Dain Curse" | Isis Audio, January 1, 1996, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Short fictional works by the modern American writer explore the world of crime and violence, mysterious women, and hard-hitting private detectives
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Paperback:

9780679722595 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 1994), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Short fictional works by the modern American writer explore the world of crime and violence, mysterious women, and hard-hitting private detectives

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Product Description: Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the color of shadows on polished silver, and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman called the Whosis Kid...read more
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Paperback:

9780679722588, titled "The Continental Op" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 1, 1992), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives.
9780394239026 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1989, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives.

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