The bird's continued widespread notoriety hinged mostly on Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon and the 1941 movie of the same name starring Humphrey Bogart. But in 2008, Formosa ...

But if these birds' plumage consisted of anything richer ... I've still got the thing. When 'The Maltese Falcon' came out, the book rang a lot of bells." Admittedly, if Haultain's jeweled Tibetan ...

Getting stolen is the only thing the Maltese Falcon is truly good at. A replica of the bird, perhaps the most famous movie icon of all time, had long resided in the second-floor display case at ...

Were they made of lead or plaster? Who owns the real Maltese Falcon(s)? But even Wynn’s bird is not the most valuable: in 1994, famed New York jeweler Ronald Winston purchased another 45-pound ...

But losing the bird on its sojourn to or from San Francisco would have involved what bankers call reputational risk. Nor was the Maltese Falcon's owner, Gary Milan, taking anything for granted.

SAN FRANCISCO – Call in the coppers, get Sam Spade on the case: The Maltese Falcon’s gone again. In a missing bird caper reminiscent of the one that perplexed Dashiell Hammett’s fictional ...

NEW YORK (AP) >> A statuette of a bird featured in the classic 1941 detective thriller “The Maltese Falcon” sold for more than $4 million at auction Monday. The final price on the 45-pound ...

Directed by John Huston, The Maltese Falcon has a well-earned reputation ... and get embroiled in the search for a highly coveted bird statue. The murder mystery culminated in an ending quite ...