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Author:

Gores, Joe, 1931-

Title:

Spade & Archer : the prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The maltese falcon / Joe Gores.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

337 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Spade, Sam (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Private investigators--San Francisco--San Francisco--Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Noir fiction.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0307264645 (alk. paper)
9780307264640 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)233939367

LCCN:

2008048288

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

RNPC397 -- Mary J. Barnett Memorial Library (Guthrie Center)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

MBPE423 -- Robert W. Barlow Memorial Library (Iowa Falls)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)