The Maltese Falcon
- Author Dashiell Hammett
- Narrator Edoardo Ballerini
- Publisher Reluctant Poet, Inc.
- Publish Date 6 January 2026
- Run Time 6 hours and 15 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction.
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What to expect
Detective Sam Spade gets mixed up in a hardboiled mystery after the murder of his partner.
Critics Review
“The Maltese Falcon is not only probably the best detective story we have ever read, it is an exceedingly well-written novel.”
“Hammett’s prose is clean and entirely unique. His characters are as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction.”
“Like Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle, Hammett was an original who created a profoundly influential literary template that gives him classic status.”
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“The best detective story America has yet produced.”
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