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　　Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (including The Dain Curse and The Glass Key), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the police, risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for his help, while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the next moment.
　　Spade's partner is murdered on a stakeout; the cops blame him for the killing; a beautiful redhead with a heartbreaking story appears and disappears; grotesque villains demand a payoff he can't provide; and everyone wants a fabulously valuable gold statuette of a falcon, created as tribute for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Who has it? And what will it take to get it back? Spade's solution is as complicated as the motives of the seekers assembled in his hotel room, but the truth can be a cold comfort indeed.

　　Spade is bigger (and blonder) in the book than in the movie, and his Mephistophelean countenance is by turns seductive and volcanic. Sam knows how to fight, whom to call, how to rifle drawers and secrets without leaving a trace, and just the right way to call a woman "Angel" and convince her that she is. He is the quintessence of intelligent cool, with a wise guy's perfect pitch. If you only know the movie, read the book. If you're riveted by Chinatown or wonder where Robert B. Parker's Spenser gets his comebacks, read the master. --Barbara Schlieper

内容简介

　　Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, stars in Hammett's detective fiction, a novel that has haunted 2 generations of readers.

作者简介

　　Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary’s County. He grewup in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Hammett left school at the age offourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter—messenger boy,newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming anoperative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. Sleuthing suited youngHammett, but World War I intervened, interrupting his work andinjuring his health. When Sergeant Hammett was discharged from thelast of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. He soonturned to writing, and in the late 1920s Hammett became theunquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. In TheMaltese Falcon (1930) he first introduced his famous private eye,Sam Spade. The Thin Man (1932) offered another immortal sleuth,Nick Charles. Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and TheGlass Key (1931) are among his most successful novels. During WorldWar II, Hammett again served as sergeant in the Army, this time formore than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians.Hammett’s later life was marked in part by ill health, alcoholism,a period of imprisonment related to his alleged membership in theCommunist Party, and by his long-time companion, the author LillianHellman, with whom he had a very volatile relationship. His attemptat autobiographical fiction survives in the story “Tulip,” which iscontained in the posthumous collection The Big Knockover (1966,edited by Lillian Hellman). Another volume of his stories, TheContinental Op (1974, edited by Stephen Marcus), introduced thefinal Hammett character: the “Op,” a nameless detective (or“operative”) who displays little of his personality, making him aclassic tough guy in the hard-boiled mold—a bit like Hammetthimself.

<p>　　Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary’s County. He grew
up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Hammett left school at the age of
fourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter—messenger boy,
newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming an
operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. Sleuthing suited young
Hammett, but World War I intervened, interrupting his work and
injuring his health. When Sergeant Hammett was discharged from the
last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. He soon
turned to writing, and in the late 1920s Hammett became the
unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. In The
Maltese Falcon (1930) he first introduced his famous private eye,
Sam Spade. The Thin Man (1932) offered another immortal sleuth,
Nick Charles. Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and The
Glass Key (1931) are among his most successful novels. During World
War II, Hammett again served as sergeant in the Army, this time for
more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians.
Hammett’s later life was marked in part by ill health, alcoholism,
a period of imprisonment related to his alleged membership in the
Communist Party, and by his long-time companion, the author Lillian
Hellman, with whom he had a very volatile relationship. His attempt
at autobiographical fiction survives in the story “Tulip,” which is
contained in the posthumous collection The Big Knockover (1966,
edited by Lillian Hellman). Another volume of his stories, The
Continental Op (1974, edited by Stephen Marcus), introduced the
final Hammett character: the “Op,” a nameless detective (or
“operative”) who displays little of his personality, making him a
classic tough guy in the hard-boiled mold—a bit like Hammett
himself.</p>

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　　"Dashiell Hammett. . . is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer." --The Boston Globe

　　"The Maltese Falcon is not only probably the best detective story we have ever read, it is an exceedingly well written novel."--The Times Literary Supplement (London)

　　"Hammett's prose [is] clean and entirely unique. His characters [are] as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction."--The New York Times -- Review

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