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The Classic Tales Podcast

Ep. 1011, The Maltese Falcon, Part 8 of 8, by Dashiell Hammett

The Classic Tales Podcast

B.J. Harrison

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4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Can Spade outwit the police and Gutman’s gang? The stunning conclusion of The Maltese Falcon, 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, so if you run into something that makes you uncomfortable, you might want to consider why that is. Might be a good thing to think about.     And now, The Maltese Falcon, Part 8 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 Spade out with the police and Gutman's gang? The stunning conclusion of the Maltese

0:07.1

Falcon, today on the Classic Tales podcast. Welcome to the Classic Tales podcast.

0:23.4

Thank you for listening.

0:24.8

If you'd like to ensure the future of the Classic Tales, please visit the website,

0:29.8

Classic Talesaudiobooks.com, and either make a donation, buy an audiobook, or pick up one of our many support options.

0:38.0

And if you can't support us monetarily, leave us a review or share an episode with a friend.

0:43.5

It all helps.

0:45.7

Today we conclude the Maltese Falcon.

0:48.6

There is a little more coarse language in this story than in our usual fare.

0:52.7

So if you run into something that makes you

0:54.4

uncomfortable, you might want to consider why that is. Might be a good thing to think about.

1:00.4

And now, the Maltese Falcon, Part 8 of 8, by Dashil Hammett.

1:15.0

Chapter 19 The Russian's Hand

1:17.0

The boy lay on his back on the sofa, a small figure that was, except for its

1:25.3

breathing, altogether corpse-like to the eye.

1:29.6

Joel Cairo sat beside the boy, bending over him, rubbing his cheeks and wrists,

1:35.1

smoothing his hair back from his forehead, whispering to him, and peering anxiously down at his

1:40.6

white still face. Bridget O'Shaughnessy stood in an angle made by table and wall.

1:46.9

One of her hands was flat on the table, the other to her breast.

1:51.5

She pinched her lower lip between her teeth and glanced furtively at spade when he was not

1:56.2

looking at her.

1:57.8

When he looked at her, she looked at Cairo and the boy.

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