The Maltese Falcon Book Summary

The Maltese Falcon Book Summary. The maltese falcon, by dashiell hammett, is a detective story first published in serial form in 1929 and 1930 in a famous pulp magazine of the day, black mask. Hammett began writing the maltese falcon after serving in world war i.

After meeting with her a number of times, spade discovers that there is much more to the situation than. The maltese falcon is a detective novel that demonstrates the corruption, materialism, and greed of american society in the early twentieth century. This section contains 2,189 words.

After the war, many americans felt that the government and traditional authorities failed the american people by engaging in an unnecessary war.

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. He falls down dead on the office floor, blood spurting from his mouth. After gutman pays spade $10,000 for the bird, spade calls his secretary, effie perine, to have her drop the bird off at his apartment. Spade is forced to trade them the falcon in exchange for his life, so long as they leave somebody.