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The Maltese Falcon By Dashiell HammettEssay Preview: The Maltese Falcon By Dashiell HammettReport this essayDashiell Hammett’s novel, The Maltese Falcon, is a hard-boiled detective novel; a subset of the mystery genre. Before the appearance of this sub-genre, mystery novels were mainly dominated by unrealistic cases and detectives like Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. As Malmgren states,.