THE MALTESE FALCON

Sam Spade is a knock-out detective and yet, personally, he cares not a hoot for the law; so little so that constantly is he just on the verge of being pulled by the 'Frisco cops. When Spade goes out after anything neither lead slugs, women, nor the Old Nick himself can stop him from landing it. Here he sets himself to outwit three contending factions who all want the same thing which he also wants and it is only natural, therefore, that many murders strew his winding wake, that several persons suddenly fall doped and a great liner burns mysteriously to the water's edge.

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RED HARVEST

MURDER WHOLESALE

I work for the Continental Detective Agency in San Francisco. They sent me to Personville to see a client who wanted help. I never saw him--alive.

The night I got there, my client was murdered.

He was just the first corpse.

In less than a week there were a dozen more. Not including me, though somebody tried.

It got on my nerves. So I went to see Dinah Brand. We got drunk on gin and laudanum. The last thing I remember was her helping me to bed.

The next morning I woke lying face down on the dining-room floor. Dinah was stretched out on her back, dead. My right hand held the round blue and white handle of her ice pick.

The pick's six-inch needle-sharp blade was buried in Dinah's left breast.

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