The Maltese Falcon: Black Mask Authorized Edition

This authorized Black Mask edition of The Maltese Falcon returns the novel in the raw form that electrified readers of Black Mask Magazine-restoring the original serialized text and the classic pulp illustrations that helped define hard-boiled noir.

In Prohibition-era San Francisco, tough private eye Sam Spade takes a routine case that explodes into murder, betrayal, and the deadly hunt for a jewel-encrusted falcon idol that people will cross continents-and kill-to possess. As cops close in ...