A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private
eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed drifter named
Joel Cario, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a
beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a
dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's coolly
glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted three
generations of readers.