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The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett (1894 - 1961)

Type of Work:

Detective mystery novel

Setting

San Francisco; 1920s

Principal Characters

Sam Spade, a young hard-boiled detective
Miles Archer, Spade's older partner Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful young woman (alias Miss Wonderly)
Joel Cairo, an effeminate gangster-type
Casper Gutman, a rotund, older man
Iva Archer, Archer's wife and Spade's mistress