Maltese Falcon Society "Success to crime." William Nadel of the New York chapter conducted a Dashiell Hammett/"Thin Man" walking tour of Manhattan. Founded by mystery writer Jiro Kimura, the Japanese chapter produced a newsletter called "The Maltese Falcon Flyer" ten times a year, and in 1983 began to present the annual Falcon Award. Co-founder Herron began to conduct the Dashiell Hammett Tour in San Francisco, the longest running literary tour in the United States. The San Francisco chapter meetings heard presentations by mystery novelists Julie Smith, Charles Willeford, Stephen Greenleaf, and Joe Gores. Other speakers included Hammett biographers Diane Johnson and William F.
Tribute of the Maltese Falcon the 27th as King of Castile, Granada etc., the 16th of Navarre, the 15th of Aragon, the Two Sicilies, Jerusalem and all our other realms". The grant says: The investiture had to be renewed in every case of a new succession, and completed according to the dispositions of common law. Other conditions included: The order and grand master paid the annual falcon until 1798 when the Order was expelled from the Maltese islands by the French Directory. Tribute of the Maltese Falcon The Grand Master of the Order of St John of Jerusalem had to pay an annual tribute to