DASHIELL HAMMETT
The Maltese Falcon
Extent: 200 pages
Trim: 10.7 x 17.7 cm
ISBN: 9781971559445
Price: $18
A priceless object. A handful of people willing to lie, betray, and kill for it. And at the center, a man who knows exactly what everyone is doing—and how far he is willing to go himself. The Maltese Falcon strips the detective story to its core: not the solving of a crime, but the negotiation of a world where nothing is binding and everything has a price. What remains is the pure tension between desire and restraint, knowledge and action, self-interest and the faint, stubborn outline of a code.