A rainy Sunday and Sam Spade. Absolutely perfect way to end the weekend.

just finished, great book written exquisitely!

Just finished! Fantastic. Tomorrow, the movie!

"You’re a damn good man, sister"

The movie is so faithful that it is impossible to not see it scene by scene.

A little murder and intrigue to lull me to sleep.

Cairo & Brigid O'S get into a fist fight. Spade on Brigid's side, Cairo at disadvantage.

The Maltese Falcon is the original book but in the 21st century catipaulted to notice by the frequent screening the the film of same name on Turner Classic Movies (only channel with NO ads). It is... more

The Maltese Falcon is the original book but in the 21st century catipaulted to notice by the frequent screening the the film of same name on Turner Classic Movies (only channel with NO ads). It is the story of the stuff that dreams are made of. Classic film noir, the book is equally if not more noirish. The prose is fast-paced, riveting, and typical of the hard boil detective genre--of it but surpassing it. Suffice to say that if I listed even 1/4 of the bon mots of the book (or the film which tightly follows the plot & dialog of the filmic book), I would exhaust the patience of you, my GG pals, who kindly read these remarks. BTW, it's the Maltese Falcon that, as Bogart says in the film and Sam Spade in the novel, proclaims is the stuff that dreams are made of. (think statuette encrusted with precious metals and jewels, enameled over with a layer of a black protective skin.)

Ringing in the near year with.

Miles, dead from gunshot wound to back. Now the question is Who Done It & specifically was it his partner, Sam Spade?

My fascination with San Fran continues ...

2011is the year for the classics I missed

Um dos melhores romances policiais já escritos.