Date: 1900-1950
Period: Roaring Twenties/pre WW2
Type: StandaloneNovel
Genres: Detective/crime/Mystery, Noir Fiction
tropes: Hard-boiled, Noir detective
Lenght: short
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Receptions: Bestseller, Classic
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME
Detective Sam Spade is a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. When his partner is killed during a stakeout, he is drawn into the hunt for a fantastic treasure with a dubious provenance—a golden bird encrusted with jewels. Also on the trail are a perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, an oversized adventurer named Gutman, and Spade’s new client Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime.
These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett’s coolly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted generations of readers.
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