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03265cam a2200553 a 4500 001 2A1730106BFB11DEA13FF332A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20210109010534 008 081105s2009 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2008048288 020 $a 0307264645 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9780307264640 (alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)233939367 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d YDXCP $d ABG $d C#P $d VP@ $d CDX $d NMP $d UPZ $d CQU $d EDK $d LY# $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ca 050 00 $a PS3557.O75 $b S63 2009 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 22 100 1 $a Gores, Joe, $d 1931- 245 1 $a Spade & Archer : $b the prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The maltese falcon / $c Joe Gores. 246 3 $a Spade and Archer 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2009. 300 $a 337 p. ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a From the Publisher: 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. 650 0 $a Spade, Sam (Fictitious character) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Private investigators $z San Francisco $z San Francisco $v Fiction. 651 0 $a San Francisco (Calif.) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Mystery fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Noir fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 17 952 $l DFPC353 $d 20240430012748.0 952 $l RNPC397 $d 20230805012348.0 952 $l MBPE423 $d 20201013050047.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200528043046.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006045451.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720032058.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180106022843.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20171214012256.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418070529.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160824090259.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20151001030717.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20110512012132.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20100503155146.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20090806113132.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20090708133753.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20090708133753.0 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20090708133753.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2A1730106BFB11DEA13FF332A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b LY#Initiate Another SILO Locator Search