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The Maltese Falcon Society is an organization for admirers of Dashiell Hammett, his 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon, and hardboiled mystery books and writers in general. Founded in San Francisco in 1981, the organization is no longer active in the United States; however, a chapter in Japan has been active continuously since 1982. The Japanese branch of the society presents the Falcon Award, Japan's highest honor in the mystery field, to honor the best hardboiled mystery novel published in Japan.

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Maltese Falcon Society

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The Maltese Falcon Society is an organization for admirers of Dashiell Hammett, his 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon, and hardboiled mystery books and writers...

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The Maltese Falcon

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Falcon of Malta" Falco peregrinus brookei, aka the Maltese Falcon, Mediterranean region subspecies of peregrine falcon Tribute of the Maltese Falcon,...

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Malta

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Malta (/ˈmɒltə/ MOL-tə, /ˈmɔːltə/ MAWL-tə, Maltese: [ˈmɐːltɐ]), officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe, located in the...

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Peregrine falcon

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Sharpe in 1873, is also known as the Mediterranean peregrine falcon or the Maltese falcon. It includes caucasicus and most specimens of the proposed race...

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1989 in literature

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Wertenbaker Poetry: Russell Edson, Mary Karr, C.D. Wright Falcon Award (Maltese Falcon Society of Japan): Andrew Vachss for Strega The Japan Fantasy Novel...

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The Black Bird

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Audran. It is a comedic sequel to the John Huston film version of The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Segal playing Sam Spade's son, Sam Spade, Jr., and Lee Patrick...

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Andrew Vachss

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Littérature Policière for Strega [as La Sorcière de Brooklyn]; the Falcon Award, Maltese Falcon Society of Japan, for Strega; the Deutscher Krimi Preis for Flood...

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Sovereign Military Order of Malta

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eight-pointed Maltese cross. The Grand Master displays a rectangular flag with a red background upon which there is a white eight-pointed Maltese cross, encircled...

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James Crumley

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fine spring afternoon. In 1985, The Wrong Case won a Falcon Award from the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan for the best "hardboiled" novel published in...

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Hospitaller Malta

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Hospitaller Malta, officially the Monastic State of the Order of Malta,[citation needed] and known within Maltese history as the Knights' Period (Maltese: Żmien...

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James Carlos Blake

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Fiction Association Prize for A World of Thieves 2007 Maltese Falcon Award (Maltese Falcon Society of Japan) for Under the Skin 2013 French Grand Prix du...

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Great Siege of Malta

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The Great Siege of Malta (Maltese: L-Assedju l-Kbir) occurred in 1565 when the Ottoman Empire attempted to conquer the island of Malta, then held by the...

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Gladys George

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films such as Marie Antoinette (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Flamingo Road (1949)...

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Peter Lorre

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he mainly worked for Warner Bros. His first film at Warner was The Maltese Falcon (1941), the first of many films in which he appeared alongside actors...

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Knights Hospitaller

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providing Malta, Gozo, and the North African port of Tripoli in perpetual fiefdom, Charles V would receive an annual fee of a single Maltese falcon (the Tribute...

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Ward Bond

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films were Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Sergeant York (1941), Gentleman Jim (1942), Joan of Arc (1948)...

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Ricardo Cortez

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actor to portray Sam Spade in the original pre-Code version of The Maltese Falcon (1931); the latter film was later overshaded by the 1941 remake with...

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Arthur Edeson

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Frankenstein (1931), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Casablanca (1942). He was one of the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers, and was...

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2016 in aviation

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collapsed. It is SpaceX's third failed attempt to land a Falcon 9 first stage at sea, although a Falcon 9 successfully landed on land. Saudi-led coalition aircraft...

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Mary Astor

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best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941). Astor began her long motion picture career when a teenager in...

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Fall guy

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of both Richard Nixon and John Dean. He also cites a scene from The Maltese Falcon in which Wilmer, the young gunman, is sold out and left to "take the...

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Homeoteleuton

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Gutman to Sam Spade, Chapter XI (The Fat Man) in Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (1930) "The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter." (Sam Spade to...

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Aircraft in fiction

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number of video games have featured the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon: the Falcon series (1984-2005), F-16 Combat Pilot (1989), Street Fighter II (1991...

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Puerto Ricans

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Italians, Portuguese (especially Azoreans), Greeks, Germans, Irish, Scots, Maltese, Dutch, English, and Danes. In the 2020 United States Census, 7.0% of people...

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Don Winslow

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Alexander Hamilton: In Worlds Unknown (script and film; New York Historical Society) Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007)...

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