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.
Maltese Falcon (yacht) Maltese Falcon (yacht) Maltese Falcon is a full rigged ship using DynaRig technology, which was built by Perini Navi in Tuzla, İstanbul, and commissioned by her first owner, Tom Perkins. She is one of the world's most complex and largest sailing yachts at , similar in size to the "Athena" and "Eos". The vessel dropped her BVI flag in 2008 and was purchased by Pleon Ltd, which put her to charter use. Famous charterers include actors Tom Hanks and Hugh Jackman and Google-co founder Larry Page. The bare hull was built and launched on speculation in 1989-1990 by Perini Navi