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The Maltese Falcon in Haiku

The Maltese Falcon in Haiku

Dashiell Hammett

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Editorial:
OtherNorth Press
Año de edición:
2026
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781067952082
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The Maltese Falcon: A Noir Verse NovelA city of shadows. A detective with a crooked smile. A falcon that has shattered lives for centuries.In this bold reimagining of Dashiell Hammett’s classic, Devin Munroe distills the grit and menace of hardboiled San Francisco into a hypnotic series of haiku. Each chapter unfolds like a reel of smoky film noir: rain-slicked alleys, the glint of a pistol, the slow curl of cigarette smoke.Told through 600 razor-sharp seventeen-syllable vignettes, Sam Spade navigates betrayal, lust, and murder-all in the long shadow of the elusive black bird.For lovers of crime fiction, poetry, and the dark beauty of the unexpected, The Maltese Falcon as a noir haiku novel transforms a legendary story into a modern art form-one fleeting, unforgettable scene at a time.Step into the fog. Every syllable counts.

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