Good luck to Konstantin in getting it back for
$25,000. According to the IMDb bio of William Conrad (former
owner of one of the two original lead statues), both "the
lead and resin falcons are valued in excess of $2 million -
coincidentally the value placed on the 'real' Maltese Falcon
by Kasper Gutman, Greenstreet's character in the 1941 classic
movie." Though it might be hard to fence.
--- Edward Pettit <
epetti01@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just learned (from Bill Crider's blog) that
the
> Maltese Falcon has
> been stolen again (along with some rare
Hammett
> books). Somebody call
> Sam Spade. My money's on Joel Cairo. Very
shifty.
> And after all,
> Gutman's dead and Wilmer got the chair for
it.
> O'Shaughnessy? No jury
> would have sent her to the chair. She died
in
> prison. That leaves the
> mysterious Cairo.
>
> Crider's post about the theft:
>
http://billcrider.blogspot.com/2007/02/stuff-of-dreams.html
>
> Ed
>
> The Bibliothecary, a blog of literary
endeavour.
> http://bibliothecary.squarespace.com/
>
>
>
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