San Francisco · 1930 · citedThe Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
Hammett worked the case out on a real city grid. Sam Spade's office looks down Sutter Street; his partner is shot in Burritt Alley, a real dead-end off Bush Street that now carries a plaque; he eats chops at John's Grill on Ellis Street, which still keeps a Falcon room upstairs; and the black bird itself comes ashore off a burning ship at the waterfront. The pursuit of the jewelled statuette runs a tight circuit of downtown San Francisco.
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