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“The Maltese Falcon was one of the best books of its kind ever written. It struck the publishing world and the reading world — which is something entirely distinct from the literary world — like a thunderclap. Nothing has been the same since.” —John Crosby, New York Herald Tribune

“A knockout detective is Sam Spade.” —The Boston Globe

“We want to go on record as saying that this story is a marvelous piece of writing — the finest detective story it has ever been our privilege to read in book form, in any magazine of any kind, or in manuscript. Don’t miss it.” —Joseph Shaw, editor of Black Mask

“[Hammett] writes with a lead-pipe and poisoned arrows as coups de grace. He stands alone as ace shocker . . . And now The Maltese Falcon, a button-button-who’s-got-the-falcon? of San Francisco. It is everything you want . . . The writing is better than Hemingway.” —Ted Shane, Judge

“The sheer force of Hammett’s hard, brittle writing lifts the book out of the general run of crime spasms and places it aloof and alone as a brave chronicle of a hard-boiled man, unscrupulous, conscienceless, unique.” —John G. Neihardt, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“The best detective story America has yet produced.” —Alexander Woolcott

“There are detective-story writers, and then there is Dashiell Hammett. I can think of no one in the world who is his match . . . The book is written with the snap and bite of a whiplash . . . The Maltese Falcon has a thousand virtues, of observation, of detail, of nuance, and of effect.” —Elrick B. Davis, The Cleveland Press

The Maltese Falcon