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The Falcon's Malteser
''The Falcon's Malteser'' is a comic mystery by Anthony Horowitz. The first of ''The Diamond Brothers'' series, it was first published in 1986. The title is a spoof of ''The Maltese Falcon'', to which there are various allusions throughout the story. The novel was adapted for the 1988 film ''Just Ask for Diamond''.
==Introduction to the Diamond brothers==
Early on the book, Nick Simple (who narrates the story) explains that, before he went to live with his older brother Herbert, he had lived with his parents in a part of London called Wiernotta Mews (word play on Queen Victoria's famous phrase ''We're not amused''). At the time, his parents planned to fly (with Nick) to Australia. Herbert had joined the police (one week before the local training station was destroyed in a fire, largely implied to be Herbert's fault), and could look after himself, more or less.
Nick, not wanting to go to Australia, managed to flee London Heathrow Airport at the last minute, leaving his parents to fly off to Sydney on their own, and going to live with Herbert. In the later stories he sometimes wishes he is still with his parents, mainly due to Herbert being such an awful and embarrassing guardian and the fact that their current financial situation is so bad. Herbert has been sacked, having shot the weapons training instructor in a freak accident and caused various other mishaps during his two months at Ladbroke Grove, and has set up a detective agency under the name "Tim Diamond".
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