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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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Essential classics. Dramas volume 1
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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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Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade burst out of the pages of the Maltese Falcon and into his own radio series on July 12, 1946. This hard-boiled private investigator attracted unusual clients who had a tendency to wind up murdered. Spade was a down-to-earth flatfoot whose San Francisco exploits brought him just enough money and excitement to keep him in business. Each week a completed "caper" found Sam back in his office dictating his escapades to Effie,...
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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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"The offices of Sam Spade, Detective are open once again with six madcap capers from 1949 - 1951. But, fair warning-- a knock on Spade's door can mean wild goose chases, scams, and set ups of the seriously deadly variety. Meanwhile, the effusive and earnest Effie can be counted on to wait by her desk to take down the tale, pour the drink, and lavish the praise once the case is closed"--Container.
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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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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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Dashiell Hammett created the character Sam Spade for his crime story The Maltese Falcon. Spade was a hard-boiled detective with cold detachment, a keen eye for detail, and an unflinching determination to exact his own justice. For most people, Spade is most closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart, who played him in the third and most famous film version of The Maltese Falcon. In 1946 one of radio's top producers, William Spier, brought Sam Spade...
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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.
Dial M for murder: Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for...
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