Sam Spade’s World

Dashiell Hammett lived in this San Francisco building while writing The Maltese Falcon

Hammett – and Spade – lived in the top, right apartment.

Scene of the Crime

The Flood Building, where Hammett worked as a Pinkerton Agent.

John’s Grill, where Spade dined, still in business after all these decades.

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1948 Feature Book ~ cover art by Rodlow Willard

Feature Books #48 (David McKay Publications, 1946) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages. The single highest-graded copy of the comic that adapts The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Rodlow Willard art.