Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's the Maltese Falcon
Language: English
California Detective Fiction Fiction - Mystery General Hard-Boiled Historical Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - General Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled Mystery & Detective - Historical Mystery And Suspense Fiction Mystery fiction Noir fiction Pacific Police Procedural Private investigators Private investigators - California - San Francisco Sam (Fictitious character) San Francisco San Francisco (Calif.) Spade Spade; Sam (Fictitious character) Suspense Travel United States West Women Sleuths
Publisher: The murder room
Published: Aug 14, 2014
Description:
One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century. 'His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow' Independent Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?