Pulp Hammett

[Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon. 1930. (New York: Permabooks, 1957). Click either image for a much larger view.]

The cover illustration is by Stanley Meltzoff. The Internet Archive preserves a website devoted to his work. Readers who bought this paperback despite its cover likely knew what they were reading. I suspect that readers who bought this paperback because of its cover were disappointed.