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Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
by GORES, Joe
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307264645
- ISBN 13
- 9780307264640
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. 337 p. 23 cm. Quarter grey cloth with cream paper boards. In mylar-covered dustjacket. Signed by author on title page.
Synopsis
When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favors, and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a second skin. We know that his late partner, Miles Archer, was a son of a bitch; that Spade is sleeping with Archer's wife, Iva; that his tomboyish secretary, Effie Perine, is the only innocent in his life. What we don't know is how Spade became who he is. Spade & Archer completes the picture.1921: Spade sets up his own agency in San Francisco and clients quickly start coming through the door. The next seven years will see him dealing with booze runners, waterfront thugs, stowaways, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, bumbling cops, and the illegitimate daughter of Sun Yat-sen; with murder, other men's mistresses, and long-missing money. He'll bring in Archer as a partner, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. He'll tangle with a villain who never loses his desire to make Spade pay big for ruining what should've been the perfect crime. And he'll fall in love--though it won't turn out for the best. It never does with dames . . .Spade & Archer is a gritty, pitch-perfect, hard-boiled novel--the work of a master mystery writer--destined to become a classic in its own right.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Attic Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133414
- Title
- Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
- Author
- GORES, Joe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0307264645
- ISBN 13
- 9780307264640
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Crime, Mystery, Private investigators, Detective, Dashiell Hammett, Sam Spade, Miles Archer, Hard boiled
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime and mystery;
Terms of Sale
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