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Who wrote The Maltese Falcon?

James M. Cain

Dashiell Hammett

Raymond Chandler

Mickey Spillane

The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask. It is generally considered his finest work. The story has been adapted several times for the cinema, including the 1941 version starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor.

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