She has come to San Francisco from New York to find her Brigid concocts a false story explaining how Spade’s office, which he shares with his partner, Miles Archer. O’Shaughnessy, who falsely represents herself as Miss Wonderly, comes into There is instant sexual tension betweenīrigid and Sam, and it is never entirely clear when she is telling the truth or Only to herself but changes allegiances at a whim when it suits her needs. She is a very strong character who is loyal Intelligent, Brigid is an accomplished liar and a master manipulator. This character in The Maltese Falcon is Brigid Widely emulated by later mystery writers such as Raymond Chandler, Mickeyĭetective novel is the femme fatale character, which is placed in juxtaposition Protagonist, Sam Spade, combined with the modern investigative techniques thatĪre used by the hero, which, in turn, drive the plot, became a style that was Investigator who is a tough guy and a rugged individual, as portrayed by the Genteel murder mysteries, such as those authored by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Agatha Realism and modernism, thus setting them apart from the European tradition of Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 novel, The Maltese Falcon, has been groupedĬritically with another of his later novels, The Thin Man (1934), in that these books established a new genre ofĮstablished a new form of gritty, hard-boiled crime story that relied on
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