Ep. 1009, The Maltese Falcon, Part 7 of 8, by Dashiell Hammett

The Classic Tales Podcast

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Can Sam leverage the falcon to fence in all the murdering, thieving crooks? Dashiell Hammett, today on The Classic Tales Podcast. Welcome to The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening. If you’d like to ensure the future of The Classic Tales, please visit the website, classictalesaudiobooks.com, and either make a donation, buy an audiobook, or pick up one of our many support options. And if you can’t support us monetarily, leave us a review or share an episode with a friend. It all helps. Today we continue with The Maltese Falcon. There is a little more course language in this story than in our usual fare, and as with nearly all detective novels of the time, it’s got its share of homophobia and misogyny. Take the time to pause the show and point it out to your kids. And now, The Maltese Falcon, Part 7 of 8, by Dashiell Hammett. Follow this link to become a monthly supporter: Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel: Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast: Follow this link to follow us on Instagram: Follow this link to follow us on Facebook: Follow this link to follow us on TikTok:

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0:00.0	Can Sam leverage the Falcon to fence in all the murdering, thieving crooks?
0:06.7	Dashil Hammett, today on the Classic Tales Podcast.
0:20.0	Welcome to the Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening. If you'd like to ensure the future of the
0:26.8	classic tales, please visit the website, ClassicTalesaubbooks.com, and either make a donation, buy an
0:34.3	audiobook, or pick up one of our many support options. And if you can't support
0:38.7	us monetarily, leave us a review or share an episode with a friend. It all helps. Today we
0:45.7	continue with the Maltese Falcon. There is a little more coarse language in this story than
0:50.4	in our usual fare, and with nearly all detective novels of the time, it's got
0:55.1	its share of homophobia and misogyny. Take the time to pause the show and point it out to
1:00.2	your kids. And now, the Maltese Falcon, part 7 of 8, by Dashil Hammett.
1:17.9	Chapter 17. Saturday night.
1:25.5	Carrying the parcel lightly under his arm, walking briskly, with only the ceaseless shifting of his eyes to denote wariness.
1:28.7	Spade went, partly by way of an alley and a narrow court,
1:32.8	from his office building to Kearney and Post Streets,
1:36.2	where he hailed a passing taxi cab.
1:39.0	The taxi cab carried him to the Pickwick Stage Terminal in Fifth Street.
1:43.7	He checked the bird at the parcel room there, put the check into a stamped envelope, wrote
1:48.7	MF Holland, and a San Francisco post office box number on the envelope, sealed it, and dropped it
1:55.2	into a mailbox.
1:57.0	From the stage terminal, another taxicab carried him to the Alexandria Hotel.
2:02.9	Spade went up to Sweet 12C and knocked on the door.
2:06.9	The door was opened when he had knocked a second time
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