The story is told entirely in external third-person narrative there is no description whatsoever of any character's thoughts or feelings, only what they say and do, and how they look. Spade hurries to the dock only to find the ship ablaze.The Maltese Falcon is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue. When he comes to, he searches Gutman’s apartment to find a marked newspaper that tells of a ship coming in to port.

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