商品簡介
Dashiell Hammett searches for the meaning behind the falcon statuette that haunts him in later life. Now, suffering writers block, the famous author begins to wonder about rumors of the falcons metaphysical qualities, which link it to a powerful, wish-fulfilling black stone cited in legends from around the world. A dangerous maze of events takes Hammett from 1930s San Francisco to the glamorous Hollywood of the 1940s, a federal penitentiary at the time of the McCarthy hearings, and finally to a fateful meeting on New Years Eve, 1959, at a Long Island estate. There the dying Hammett confronts a woman from his past who proves to be his most formidable rival. And his last hope.
作者簡介
Gordon McAlpine is the author of three previous novels, a nonfiction work (with Shawn Green) called The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 MPH, and the forthcoming middle-grade adventure-mystery trilogy the Adventures of Edgar and Allan Poe. Now writing full-time, McAlpine was for many years a professor of creative writing at Chapman University in Orange, California.
