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The Maltese Falcon (BBC Radio Crimes)

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It’s San Francisco, 1928, and Sam Spade is a wisecracking, womanising Private Investigator. Missing husbands and unfaithful wives are his usual stock-in-trade, but when the beautifully distressed Miss Wonderley calls he gets involved in a dangerous caper most people would run a mile from. Miss Wonderley asks Sam’s partner, Miles Archer, to shadow Floyd Thursby, whom she maintains has kidnapped her sister. But then Archer is shot dead, and Miss Wonderley’s story turns out to be a lie – just like her name, which is actually Brigid O’Shaughnessy. And Miss O’Shaughnessy keeps on lying. But one thing’s for sure: she does know about the Maltese Falcon, an ancient statuette which has attracted more than one interested party. With a bunch of heavies at his elbow and the police on his tail, Sam needs to think fast if he’s to outlive the person who killed his partner...

Critics Review

in this terrific adaptation of Hammett's gangsters-and-molls classic, Tom Wilkinson as the macho, cynical, ruthless private eye Sam Spade is better than Humphrey Bogart
The Guardian
Author Dashiell Hammett
Narrator Full Cast, Jane Lapotaire, Nickolas Grace, Peter Vaughan, Tom Wilkinson
Duration 1 hours and 55 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781408423943
Format Audiobook
Publisher BBC Audio
Genre Films, cinema, Radio / podcasts, Television
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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