![]() Tom Wilkinson, Jane Lapotaire, Peter Vaughan and Nickolas Grace star in this stylish dramatisation of Dashiell Hammett's classic detective story. Dashiell Hammett (1894 - 1961) was a pioneer of the hardboiled detective genre, the author behind masterpieces like The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man and Red. With a bunch of heavies at his elbow and the police on his tail, Sam needs to think fast if he's to outlive the person who killed his partner. But one thing's for sure: she does know about the Maltese Falcon, an ancient statuette which has attracted more than one interested party. ![]() But then Archer is shot dead, and Miss Wonderley's story turns out to be a lie - just like her name, which is actually Brigid O'Shaughnessy. Miss Wonderley asks Sam's partner, Miles Archer, to shadow Floyd Thursby, whom she maintains has kidnapped her sister. The Maltese Falcon A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation By: Dashiell Hammett Narrated by: Tom Wilkinson, Jane Lapotaire, Peter Vaughan, Nickolas Grace Length: 1 hr and 55 mins 4.4 (31 ratings) Try for £0. Neither Spade, nor his partner Miles Archer, buy her story. And she wants to hire the services of a private detective to find her missing sister, who supposedly ran off with a crook named Thursby. It turns out she's a knockout with money. ![]() Missing husbands and unfaithful wives are his usual stock-in-trade, but when the beautifully distressed Miss Wonderley calls, he gets involved in a dangerous caper most people would run a mile from. The novel begins when the knockout Miss Wonderly walks into Spade's office. It's San Francisco, 1928, and Sam Spade is a wisecracking, womanising private investigator. ![]()
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