Spade and Archer
By: Joe Gores ; based on characters created by Dashiell Hammett
Contributors: Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961
Publisher: Orion; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409113249; 9781409113232
Subjects: Private investigators; History; Sam Spade (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favours, and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a second skin. Spade is sleeping with his late partner, Miles Archer's wife. This novel reveals how Spade became who he is.