On the left is my copy of the 1984 reprint of Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Maltese Falcon’. North Point Press loaded it with rare San Francisco photographs from the period the story takes place, 1929. On the right, is the Maltese Falcon statue from the 1941 Humphrey Bogart film. Follow me now, if you will, while … Continue reading Sam Spade’s San Francisco