![]() William Nadel of the New York chapter conducted a Dashiell Hammett/ Thin Man walking tour of Manhattan. As its official toast, the society adopted the one used by Sam Spade in Chapter 2 of The Maltese Falcon: "Success to crime." Activities By 1982, the society had 110 members in San Francisco, 55 in Japan, and 50 in New York. The society opened chapters in New York and Japan. The speakers at that first meeting were David Fechheimer, a Hammett researcher and private investigator, and E. ![]() The society's first meeting was held at John's Grill, a restaurant where Dashiell Hammett ate and which he featured in The Maltese Falcon. The Maltese Falcon Society was founded in San Francisco on by literary historian and biographer Don Herron and private investigator Jayson Wechter. ![]() 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. Founded in San Francisco in 1981, the organization is no longer active in the United States however, a chapter in Japan has been active continuously since 1982.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 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. ![]()
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