num_pages: 150
description: THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) set the standard by which the private eye genre is judged. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?
language: English
title: The Maltese Falcon
titlecomplete: The Maltese Falcon
characters: Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Effie Perine, Casper Gutman, Sam Spade, Joel Cairo
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Novels, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 104138
places: California, San Francisco, California
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel of the Century, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Audie Award
category: Audiobook Adaptation, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Grammy Award
category: Best Spoken Word Album
publisher: Amereon Ltd