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Somalia: Hijacked Maltese Flagged Merchant Vessel ReleasedAllAfrica.com - Jul 29, 2010
The MV FRIGIA, a Maltese flagged cargo ship with a deadweight of 35000 tonnes was hijacked on 23 March 2010 approximately 1000 nautical miles east of the ...
City Hall - Jul 29, 2010
By Edward-Isaac Dovere But instead of running himself, Maltese wants to run all city elections, in a bid to become the new executive director of the city ...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Jul 29, 2010
Gotta love her: "I have a beautiful Maltese named Coco Chanel." If you want to woo her: "I do really enjoy sitting a la terrace and sipping some good red ...
Maltese books
The Maltese Falcon
by: Dashiell Hammett
How can this masterwork of detective fiction be anything other than 5 stars?
This is a genre maker, a foundational work in what's become the paradigm. The detective sits at his desk. A beautiful blonde client is ushered in by the trusty assistant. She tells her sob-filled story, hiring him as her last hope...
Hammett's prose is superb, Sometimes when reading I'd pause, and reread a sentence or paragraph just to admire his use of language. And in addition to being a fantastic work on its own to contemporary readers, over 80 years after its writing it provides a wonderful window into a different age, perhaps not to a world as it actually was but rather to a world as it was imagined.
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Dashiell Hammett Complete Novels: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man
by: Dashiell Hammett
He may have not been the first hard-boiled mystery writer, but Dashiell Hammett was still a pioneer in the genre, helping to establish it. The Library of America has assembed all five of his novels into a single omnibus edition. These five novels were all published in a span of less than a decade when Hammett was at his creative peak and show his evolution as a writer.
Red Harvest, his first novel, actually is more of a series of related novellas. His one true recurring character narrates this one; although he has no name, he is often known as the Continental Op, a private investigator who goes into the small and corrupt town of Personville (nickname: Poisonville).
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The Politics of the Presidency
by: Joseph August Pika, John Anthony Maltese
I have this book as a text for a political science class I'm taking at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Though a bit pricey at $40, I truly find this a solid read. It should be appropriate for all levels of reader, though it seems to be geared towards those with at least basic knowledge of the American political system.
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Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON
by: Joe Gores
Gores has imagined Sam Spade's life prior to events in The Maltese Falcon. If you are familiar with the original novel, Hammett's other stories and his life, this book is a delight as you can catch carefully inserted tidbits from all of the above. The book opens in 1921 with Spade opening his own office and ends in 1928 with secretary Effie announcing that Miss Wonderly is waiting in the outer office, and is she a knockout.
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