This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
San Francisco, 1928. Private detective Sam Spade takes on a new client, a nervous young woman with a story about a missing sister and a dangerous man. By morning his partner Miles Archer is dead in a foggy alley, the man he was tailing has been shot as well, and the police are sure Spade knows more than he is saying.
Then the visitors start arriving: a perfumed and polite Levantine with a pistol, a fat man who purrs over his whisky, and a sullen young gunman who never leaves Spade's shadow. All of them want the same thing: a jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon, painted black, that has been stolen, smuggled and fought over for four hundred years. And every one of them is lying.
First published in 1930, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon defined the hard-boiled detective story and remains one of the greatest crime novels ever written. This unabridged edition is performed by a full cast, with a distinct voice for every speaking character, from Spade, his secretary Effie Perine and Brigid O'Shaughnessy to Casper Gutman, Joel Cairo and the San Francisco police. Produced by EZY Studios.
