The Maltese Cow!
So my workplace is having a “Big Read” program, and The Maltese Falcon is the chosen book. I read The Maltese Falcon in college and didn’t much like it, but I don’t like detective fiction in general. I can never manage to solve the mystery before the detective, and that makes me feel like I don’t pay enough attention when I’m reading.
Anyhow, The Maltese Falcon always reminds me of a book-and-cassette that my younger brother had when he was young. It was called The Maltese Cow, and it was an A-Team read-along storybook and cassette. We listened to it nonstop. Apparently, it was based on an episode of The A-Team, a fact that I had never realized since the only person in our household who really watched The A-Team was my dad. The rest of us just thought Mr. T was really cool and funny.
The lines I remember from The Maltese Cow are from the ending. I apologize for the spoiler, but there’s just no way around it:
Murdock: The Maltese Cow! I knew it! Just like in my fantasy!
B. A. Baracas (known to all as Mr. T): I gotta have a crazy man with me who talks about cows!
