"v"s and Malta

[James Kyllo]

The following is the beginning of "The Maltese Falcon"


Sam Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more
flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller,
v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v motif was picked up again by
thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his
pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on his
forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan.

best

James