01551cam a2200313 4500 340569706 TxAuBib 20180101120000.0 890111t19891930||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 88040510 9780679722649 $6.95 0679722645 $6.95 TxAuBib Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett. Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1989. ©1930. 217 p. ; 21 cm. Vintage crime/Black Lizard 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? 20180101. Spade, Sam (Fictitious character) Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Vintage crime/Black Lizard. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random056/88040510.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random042/88040510.html Sample text https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random045/88040510.html Publisher description