cagebox 's review for:

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
4.0

The classic hardboiled crime novel, The Maltese Falcon reads like the Humphrey Bogart classic. A quick and entertaining read, I found it difficult to rate higher than 4 stars due to every character being essentially unlikable assholes. There is some level of grandeur missing here that keeps The Maltese Falcon in the category of very good but not great.