Listening to the audio book of 'The Maltese Falcon' by Dashel Hammett
After listening to Mark Twain a few days ago, and then young girls book Pollyanna I started to listen to The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett as an audio book on Youtube. What a different outlook and style. The wide eyed girls outlook of yesterday replaced by the direct sentence sharp observation of detective Sam Spade in 1930's San Fransisco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b0zWBXlQKU&t=1s
The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask
beginning with the September 1929 issue. The story is told entirely in
external third-person narrative; there is no description whatever of any
character's internal thoughts or feelings, only what they say and do,
and how they look. The novel has been adapted several times for the
cinema.
The main character, Sam Spade combined several features of previous detectives, notably his
cold detachment, keen eye for detail, unflinching, sometimes ruthless,
determination to achieve his own form of justice, and a complete lack of
sentimentality.
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