Gores, Joe,  1931- <br/><br/>
Spade & Archer / 
 Spade and Archer 
Joe Gores. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Alfred A. Knopf,  2009. 
 - 337 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> "The prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The maltese falcon."  "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/> In a story about the origins of Sam Spade from "The Maltese Falcon," Spade sets up an agency in San Francisco in 1921 and begins dealing with banking swindlers, gold smugglers, booze runners, and other nefarious individuals, bringing in Archer, his old WWI buddy, as a partner. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780307264640 (trade : alk. paper) 0307264645 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008048288 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Spade, Sam (Fictitious character)--Fiction.<br/>Private investigators--California--San Francisco--Fiction.<br/>Spade, Sam (Fictional character)--Fiction.<br/>Private investigators--Fiction.<br/>Mystery fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.<br/>San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Mystery fiction.<br/>Noir fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3557.O75  / S63 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.54  [Fic]