Fred Sexton was a friend of this guy, George Hodel.

Now the original one, I should tell you, is sculpted by a guy named Fred Sexton.

Now, James Ellroy believes that Fred Sexton, the sculptor of the Maltese Falcon, killed James Elroy's mother.

The shirt sleeve planted a shrewd blow in Hall's face that stopped his open armed advance, and sent him backward into old Toothsome the sexton, and in another moment the garment was lifted up and became convulsed and vacantly flapping about the arms, even as a shirt that is being thrust over a man's head.