The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett

Category: Crime, Detective, Full Cast
Language: English
Keywords: Noir Sam Spade Trio Recording

Written by Dashiell Hammett
Read by Ben Werling, Kevin Theis, Sara Nichols
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

The Maltese Falcon - Unabridged
By: Dashiell Hammett
Narrated by: Ben Werling, Kevin Theis, Sara Nichols
Release date
11-02-2026
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
6 hrs and 32 mins
Publisher
SoundCraft Audiobooks
Categories
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Dashiell Hammett was already a well-established hard-boiled mystery writer by the time he released what would turn out to be his masterpiece, The Maltese Falcon in 1930. But with the release of this novel, Hammett would be catapulted to the forefront of American crime writers. The novel has been adapted several times for the screen and the 1941 film version—starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor—has become a film noir classic.

The story opens in the offices of Spade and Archer, a private detective agency run by partners Sam Spade and Miles Archer. When they are approached by an enigmatic young woman—called “Miss Wonderley”—to follow a man who has run off with her sister, Archer opts to take the initial shift…and is shot and killed his first night on the job.

Spade discovers that “Miss Wonderley” is, in fact, a treasure seeker named Brigid O’Shaunessey who, with several other disreputable characters, is on the hunt for a mysterious statue; a legendary, jewel-encrusted bird known as the Maltese Falcon. Multiple twists, turns, betrayals and complications ensue, resulting in one of the greatest crime novels of all time. Sam Spade is regularly cited as one of the most iconoclastic detectives in all of crime fiction.

The book is presented here in its original and unabridged format and has been narrated by renowned audiobook performers Ben Werling, Kevin Theis, and Sara Nichols.

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