Spade & Archer / Joe Gores.
By: Gores, Joe.
Contributor(s): Hammett, Dashiell. Maltese falcon.
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BookPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009Edition: 1st ed.Description: 337 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780307264640 (trade : alk. paper); 0307264645.Other title: Spade and Archer.Subject(s): Spade, Sam (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Private investigators -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction | San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction | Spade, Sam (Fictional character) -- Fiction | Private investigators -- Fiction | San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction | Mystery fictionGenre/Form: Mystery fiction. | Noir fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 | [Fic] Summary: 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.
"The prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The maltese falcon."
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
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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