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The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
Sam Spade, a dead partner and a jewelled bird everyone will kill for. The hard-boiled novel that defined noir.
First published 1930 · 67,565 words · about 5 hours to read · 227 pages at 10.3″
EPUB works on every e-reader. Writing tablet? Pick it above for a PDF typeset to your screen.
All files
- EPUB 0.3 MB, any e-reader or reading app
- PDF, 10.3″ and larger, with notes margin 227 pages, 1 MB
- PDF, 10.3″ and larger, without notes margin 221 pages, 1 MB
- PDF, 7–8″, with notes margin 290 pages, 1 MB
- PDF, 7–8″, without notes margin 263 pages, 1 MB
- PDF, 7.3″ tall, with notes margin 288 pages, 1 MB
- PDF, 7.3″ tall, without notes margin 284 pages, 1 MB
Public domain in the United States, so downloads are for readers in the US. It’s still in copyright in many other countries (the author died in 1961).
The Margin edition
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Getting it onto your device
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About this edition
The text is from the Standard Ebooks edition, carefully proofread by volunteers and dedicated to the public domain. The cover, the EPUB edition and the PDF typesetting are ours, and free to share.
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