by Dashiell Hammett · Diario El País · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669512
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«El halcón maltés» is the crime novel by Dashiell Hammett, published by Diario El País in hardback (303 pages, in Spanish).
Sam Spade, a private detective in San Francisco, takes on a job that seems routine and ends up as the main suspect in the murder of the man he was supposed to watch. The key lies in a golden statuette shaped like a falcon, coveted for over four centuries and surrounded by thefts and losses.
The 2002 edition belongs to the Clásicos del Siglo XX collection. The novel was originally published as The Maltese Falcon in 1930 and gave rise to the famous film by John Huston.
For fans of crime fiction and classics of the detective genre, as well as detective stories.
Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9.
