Review: Horror Hotel by Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren. Review: A Death in Door County by Annelise Ryan. Review: The Twisted Dead by Darcy Coates. Review: The Tide by Anthony J. Melchiorri. Review: The Strange Library by Haruki Marakami. Review: The Death Wish Game by Jonathan Chateau. Review: The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd. I’ve watched the movie several times, and I feel like I will be re-visiting the book just as often. Honestly, both versions are a must see / read story. You have a captivating mystery, sketchy characters, wise cracking detectives, dangerous women, murder, and a fantastic treasure to chase. The Maltese Falcon, both the book and the movie, is just an epic story. With the book, you get a little bit more insight into the characters of the story that in the movie was left unsaid or implied. 😮 I was not expecting that… I don’t know why, but it was a very pleasant surprise. I was pretty impressed that the famous movie based on this book, actually stayed really faithful to the source material. A treasure of unimaginable wealth… a statue of a bird… Where is it? Who has it? Who is telling the truth? You can’t help but feel the tension and anticipation from hunting for this statue. You can’t help but feel hooked with this story, right along with Sam. He’s not perfect, he’s a plate full of problems, and he’s trying to figure just what the hell is going on. Flaws and all… the ultimate noir detective. If you are a mystery fan, you need to read this book. It was easy to see why this is a classic and quintessential private eye story. How is that even possible? I should have read it years ago when I first got my hands on a copy of it. Probably due to seeing that movie when I was a kid! Somehow, I never had gotten around to reading the actual story until 2020. 
And I’ve always been a fan of hard-boiled pulp private eyes. I’ve always loved the movie The Maltese Falcon. Unabridged audio narrated by William Dufris. Humphrey Bogart immortalized tough-guy Sam Spade in the classic 1941 film. The Maltese Falcon is the definitive masterpiece of the hard-boiled detective genre. Missing for centuries, it resurfaced in 1921, when it was covered in black enamel to disguise its true value.
Encrusted with jewels, it is worth a fortune. As Spade pursues the mystery of his partner’s death, he is drawn into a circle of colorful characters, and they are all after a legendary statuette of a falcon that had long ago been made for King Charles of Spain. Spade’s partner Miles Archer takes on the assignment, and quickly both Archer and the man he was shadowing are murdered. Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade is hired to locate a client’s sister by tailing the sister’s companion.
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