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The Maltese Falcon
- Author
- Dashiell Hammett
- Narrator
- Edoardo Ballerini
- Publisher
- Reluctant Poet, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 6 January 2026
- Run Time
- 6 hours 15 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Detective Sam Spade gets mixed up in a hardboiled mystery after the murder of his partner.
Critics Review
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“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 (UK)
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“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
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“Like Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle, Hammett was an original who created a profoundly influential literary template that gives him classic status.”
The Guardian
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“After reading The Maltese Falcon, I went mooning about in a daze of love such as I had not known for any character in literature since I encountered Sir Launcelot.”
Dorothy Parker, The New Yorker
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“The best detective story America has yet produced.”
Alexander Woolcott, author, actor, journalist, and critic
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Details
- Author
- Dashiell Hammett
- Narrator
- Edoardo Ballerini
- Duration
- 6 hours 15 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 January 2026
- ISBN
- 9798228762466
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Reluctant Poet, Inc.
- Genre
- Classic fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Synopsis
Detective Sam Spade gets mixed up in a hardboiled mystery after the murder of his partner.
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