The Maltese Falcon
内容简介
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?
......(更多)
作者简介
Also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse). In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in the New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction."
......(更多)
目录
......(更多)
读书文摘
注1：原文中艾菲说“the La Paloma”。 La Paloma为西班牙语，译成英文为the white dove，即“白鸽”，连在一起变成“the the white dove”，文法不通，所有斯佩德说很糟糕。
好啦，威尔莫，失去你我真的很舍不得。我希望你明白，我对你感情很深，就像你是我的亲生儿子一样；但是——哎，老天啊！如果失去一个儿子，还有可能得到另一个；但是马耳他之鹰却只有一只。
......(更多)
