09/04/2026
“I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, it’s possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.” – Dashiell Hammett
Our wonderful copy of the Maltese Falcon is a reprint of the 1934 Modern Library edition featuring grey Rockwell Kent endpapers and E. McKnight Kauffer jacket art. Following Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, a perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime, Hammett guides you through the twists and turns of one of the most influential mystery novels of the 20th century. It was later used as the inspiration for the 1941 film featuring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor.
