The Maltese Falcon
“Hammett’s prose [is] clean and entirely unique. His characters [are] as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction.”
New York Times
Winner of the Audie Award for Best Audiobook Adaptation
Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
A 2009 AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year for Mystery
A 2009 Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album for Adults
A Booklist Top 10 Crime Fiction Audiobook
A Booklist Editors’ Choice, March 2009
Blackstone Publishing presents a faithful, full-cast dramatization of The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett's intense and immersive hard-boiled detective classic that redefined the genre.
"Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be. That kind of reputation might be good business."-Samuel Spade, private investigator
Brilliant detective Sam Spade is the quintessential private eye, with his own code of ethics. When a standard stakeout goes wrong and Spade's partner is killed, he finds himself drawn into the hunt for a fantastic treasure of dubious origin-a golden bird encrusted with jewels. But he's not the only one on the trail of the falcon. Hot on his heels are Joel Cairo, a perfumed grifter; an oversized adventurer named Gutman; and Spade's new client Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful but treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a hat.
With vividly drawn characters and memorable dialogue, this full-cast dramatization by the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear brings to life all the excitement and suspense of Hammett's original in the playhouse of the mind.
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