In an odd excursus in this novel, the protagonist tells the tale of Flitcraft, who left his family in Seattle and became a bigamist in Spokane.  The title object was made on t
In an odd excursus in this novel, the protagonist tells the tale of Flitcraft, who left his family in Seattle and became a bigamist in Spokane.  The title object was made on the order of Villiers de L'isle d'Adam and was most recently in the possession of the Russian Kemidov.  This is all related by the gloriously fat Caspar Gutman, who had employed the homosexual Joel Cairo and the deceiving Brigid O'Shaughnessey to recover it for him.  FTP, name this novel that begins and ends in the office of Sam Spade, a work by Dashiell Hammett.
In an odd excursus in this novel, the protagonist tells the tale of Flitcraft, who left his family in Seattle and became a bigamist in Spokane.  
The Maltese Falcon