It's a sky-high day to be a collector! Named one of TIME’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time, Dashiell Hammett’s THE MALTESE FALCON returns today—reaffirming its place as one of the most influential detective novels ever written. Praised by The New York Times for its “clean and entirely unique” prose, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as one of the most skillfully written detective novels in the genre’s history, and admired by Raymond Chandler himself for scenes “never written before