Five books with plots propelled by the search for an object

At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog Sara Brady tagged five "books focused on an object that sets the plot in motion," including:Dashiell Hammett’s noir classic The Maltese Falcon is arguably more famous as a film than a book, thanks to Humphrey Bogart’s indelible performance as the original hard-boiled detective, Sam Spade. The elusive bird figurine around which all the action orbits would just a few