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Ein klassischer Kriminalroman, der als Hammetts (1894-1961) bester gilt. Einer wertvollen Skulptur wegen, eines Falken aus dem 16. Jh., müssen mindestens 3 Menschen sterben. Detektiv Sam Spade, der beinahe seiner jungen attraktiven, aber skrupellosen Auftraggeberin in die Falle gegangen wäre, erkennt allmählich die Zusammenhänge.… (mehr)
lucien: A great modern take on the noir genre in comic form. Berry is successful at both weaving a solid noir tale and having some good fun with genre conventions.
"Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be. That kind of reputation might be good business. " The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammett
Sam Spade is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached. Dashiell Hammett
I listened to a full cast reading of the book. Very good and it was only 3 hours & 15 minutes long.
Omläsning. Lever inte alls upp till hur jag minns den. Känns lite dammig och mossig nu när jag läst Raymond Chandler ganska nära inpå. Det är dock fortfarande en bra och välberättad historia. Med karaktärer som lever och det är bra mycket bättre än 95% av modern kriminal litteratur. Men jag känner mig ändå lite besviken... ( )
[I]t would not surprise us one whit if Mr. Hammett should turn out to be the Great American Mystery Writer. . . . In short, "The Maltese Falcon" is the best one, outside the . . . polite classes, in Lord knows when.
hinzugefügt von NinieB | bearbeitenNew York Herald Tribune, Will Cuppy(Feb 23, 1930)
If the locution "hard-boiled" had not already been coined it would be necessary to coin it now to describe the characters . . . .
Samuel Spades Unterkiefer war lang und knochig, sein Kinn ein scharf vorspringendes V unter dem ausdrucksvolleren V seines Mundes.
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The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second 'you'. "People lose teeth talking like that." Spade's voice was still amiable though his face had become wooden. "If you want to hang around you'll be polite." The boy repeated his two words.
Spade by means of his grip on the Levantine's lapels turned him slowly and pushed him back until he was standing close in front of the chair he had lately occupied. A puzzled look replaced the look of pain in the lead-colored face. Then Spade smiled. The smile was gentle, even dreamy. His right shoulder raised a few inches. His bent right arm was driven up by the shoulder's lift. Fist, wrist, forearm, crooked elbow, and upper arm seemed all one rigid piece, with only the limber shoulder giving them motion. The fist struck Cairo's face...
"I don't know where that damned bird is. You don't. She does. How in hell are we going to get it if I don't play along with her?" Cairo hesitated, said dubiously: "You have always, I must say, a smooth explanation ready." Spade scowled. "What do you want me to do? Learn to stutter?"
‘Who killed Thursby?’
Spade said: ‘I don’t know.’
Bryan rubbed his black eyeglass-ribbon between thumb and fingers and said knowingly: ‘Perhaps you don’t, but you certainly could make an excellent guess.’
‘Maybe, but I wouldn’t.’
The District Attorney raised his eyebrows.
‘I wouldn’t,’ Spade repeated. He was serene. ‘My guess might be excellent or it might be crummy, but Mrs Spade didn’t raise any children dippy enough to make guesses in front of a District Attorney, an Assistant District Attorney, and a stenographer.’
‘Why shouldn’t you, if you’ve nothing to conceal?’
‘Everybody,’ Spade responded mildly, ‘has something to conceal.’
‘And you have – ?’
‘My guesses, for one thing.'
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"Yes," he said, and shivered. "Well, send her in."
Ein klassischer Kriminalroman, der als Hammetts (1894-1961) bester gilt. Einer wertvollen Skulptur wegen, eines Falken aus dem 16. Jh., müssen mindestens 3 Menschen sterben. Detektiv Sam Spade, der beinahe seiner jungen attraktiven, aber skrupellosen Auftraggeberin in die Falle gegangen wäre, erkennt allmählich die Zusammenhänge.
Sam Spade is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached. Dashiell Hammett
I listened to a full cast reading of the book. Very good and it was only 3 hours & 15 minutes long.