The Maltese Terror

### Amazon.com Review 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 Gl

Antiques dealer Lara McClintoch expects a working holiday on the Mediterranean island of Malta will be a nice break from the Canadian winter–until she discovers a dead body stuffed inside an antique chest and another impaled on an ancient knight's sword. Lara joins forces with an RCMP officer assign

### Amazon.com Review Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more *noir* than \_\_ and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In *The Maltese Falcon*, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (including **and** ), Spade is tough enough to bluff t

### Amazon.com Review 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 Gla

A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid OShaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients