The creators of Maltese have based their commissario on the fallen heroes of the war against the Sicilian mafia.
The best is a slim volume with an uninspired title: "Malta, Gozo and Comino, All You Need to Know" by Geoffrey Aquilina Ross, a Maltese journalist based in London.
Over the years, the fog has found its way into many works, sometimes as sultry and other times sinister, as in Dashiell Hammett's hard‐boiled hits, including The Maltese Falcon, based in part on his time working at a local detective agency.
In the Maltese dialect (substantially based on Arabic), "Mdina" (like the Arab "Medina") means "city," and "Rabat" was derived from the Arabic word for "suburb" -- but, ironically, Mdina was eclipsed in size and encompassed by the larger Rabat long ago.
In this paper, the optimal design of the elastic structure of a mechanically decoupled six-axis force/moment sensor is considered, with the aim of reducing the coupling errors of the sensors designed based on Maltese cross-beams geometry to negligible values.
Additionally, Silverman inserted a low-angle shot of Fat Tony sitting in a chair as a tribute to a similar shot of Sydney Greenstreet's character in The Maltese Falcon, while Don Vittorio is based on actors William Hickey and Don Ameche.
The party says the companies are based at the same Maltese address as a firm called 'Bentley Trust (Malta)', which advertises financial services including the "legitimate mitigation" of tax.
But Eric Gioia, a Democratic City Council member whose district overlaps Mr. Maltese's, said that "transactional politics" based on bringing state dollars to local groups was no longer enough.
The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key (1942) were based on novels by Hammett; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity (1944), Mildred Pierce (1945), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), and Slightly Scarlet (1956; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit).
Or the narrator of Oracle Night,who's writing a story of his own based on a story told in The Maltese Falcon.
