The Maltese Falcon
/ðə ˌmɔːltiːz ˈfɔːlkən/
/ðə ˌmɔːltiːz ˈfælkən/
- a novel (1930) by Dashiell Hammett, in which he first used the character Sam Spade, a private detective . The story is about people who commit murder to get a valuable statue called the Maltese Falcon. There have been two film versions, the first in 1931 with Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade, the second (and more famous) in 1941 with Humphrey Bogart.
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The Maltese Falcon