The Maltese Falcon

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1. The Maltese Falcon - (1)
   Cover Illustration THE MALTESE FALCON DASHIELL HAMMETT ALFRED · A · KNOPF NEW YORK COPYRIGHT 1930 BY DASHIELL HAMMETT COPYRIGHT RENEWED 195…
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   Spade’s tinny alarm-clock said three-forty when he turned on the light in the suspended bowl again. He dropped his hat and overcoat on the…
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   Spade said, “Thanks a lot, Freed,” and left the St. Mark. When Spade returned to his office Effie Perine stopped typing a letter to tell hi…
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   Cairo coughed a little apologetic cough and smiled nervously with lips that had lost some of their redness. His dark eyes were humid and ba…
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   “You can see him tonight,” Spade said, looking at his watch. “His show will be out soon. We can get him on the phone at his hotel.” She rai…
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   Spade frowned and shook his head. Dundy’s mouth-corners lifted in a smile of grim satisfaction. “There must’ve been something to it,” he to…
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   Spade laughed. “I don’t know. You’ll have to figure that out for yourself. My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-w…
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   11 THE FAT MAN THE telephone-bell was ringing when Spade returned to his office after sending Brigid O’Shaughnessy off to Effie Perine’s ho…
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   Spade’s face was expressionless. He asked: “You believe her?” “Don’t you?” Wise replied. “How do I know? How do I know it isn’t something y…
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    “In my hands, safely tucked away.” Gutman smiled with approval. “Trust you for that, sir,” he said. “Well now, sir, before we sit down to t…
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    “I wish we all did,” Polhaus grumbled. “Well, he was a St. Louis gunman the first we hear of him. He was picked up a lot of times back ther…
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    “Where’s Spade?” the man asked. His voice brought Spade up erect and alert in his chair. It was a voice harsh and rasping with agony and wi…
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    Saying, “Thanks, that’s all,” Spade left the sedan in front of the Alexandria. He went into the hotel, to the desk, where a tall young man…
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    Spade smiled at the boy. His smile was not broad, but the amusement in it seemed genuine and unalloyed. The boy said: “You bastard, get up…
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    The boy put one foot on the floor, raised himself on an elbow, opened his eyes wide, put the other foot down, sat up, and looked around. Wh…
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    Brigid O’Shaughnessy, startled by the suddenness of his approach, let her breath out in a little laughing gasp. Spade, face to face with he…