The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

Editora: CLXBX

Sinopse

The Maltese Falcon is Dashiell Hammett's landmark novel of crime, power, and moral restraint. Set in a world governed by deception and desire, the story follows private detective Sam Spade as he navigates a web of lies, shifting alliances, and calculated violence in pursuit of a legendary object whose value is as symbolic as it is corrupting.

Hammett's prose is lean, precise, and unsentimental. Emotion is withheld, motives are obscured, and morality is defined not by ideals but by conduct under pressure. The investigation unfolds as a study of control—of language, of bodies, of truth itself.

Cool, exacting, and relentlessly modern, The Maltese Falcon established the foundations of hard-boiled fiction and remains a definitive portrait of power exercised without illusion.

Disponível desde: 05/02/2026.

Comprimento de impressão: 232 páginas.

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