Review: Revisiting Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon"

NPR Special | February 9, 2005| | Copyright

MADELEINE BRAND
NPR Special
02-09-2005
Review: Revisiting Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon"

Host: MADELEINE BRAND
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM

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This month marks the 75th anniversary of Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon," one of the greatest detective novels of all time. It tells the story of San Francisco detective Sam Spade's search for a rare statue. Our book critic David Kipen reread the novel and came away with one question.

DAVID KIPEN:

To paraphrase Chico Marx on ducks: `Why a falcon?' Distinguished biographers and memoirists have spilled more ink over Dashiell ...

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