TY - BOOK AU - Hammett, Dashiell TI - The Maltese Falcon SN - 9780330242615 U1 - 813.52 HAM 23 PY - 1975/// CY - London PB - : Pan Books KW - Fiction KW - Mystery & Detective KW - Mystery Thriller N2 - Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him? ER -