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Mar 9, 2010 · After reading Spade & Archer, I can see why they agreed to let Joe Gores craft this brilliant three-part story. Gores, one of the foremost chroniclers of Dashiell Hammett and his works, was also a private investigator (like Hammett before him), providing him with more than enough qualifications to revive the Spade legacy.
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Feb 10, 2009 · Joe Gores. A wonderfully dark, pitch-perfect noir prequel to The Maltese Falcon , featuring Dashiell Hammett’s beloved detective, Sam Spade. It’s 1921 - seven years before Sam Spade will solve the famous case of the Maltese Falcon. He’s just set up his own agency in San Francisco and he gets off to a quick start, working cases (he doesn ...
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Oct 24, 2009 · If you like Dashiell Hammett you'll enjoy this. Gores has captured the spirit and style of the great man wonderfully well. Unlike many other writers who do no more than parody this style of writing and miss the essential human qualities, Spade and Archer is rooted in the same politically astute, socially aware context as Hammet''s work, (although probably less evident in the Maltese Falcon).
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Feb 10, 2009 · "Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon" by Joe Gores is first rate and a real addition to the tradition of the hard boiled detective genre. Gores, a noted Hammett scholar and Edgar Award-winning novelist, got authorization from the Hammett estate for this novel.
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Spade & Archer is a triumph–intricately plotted, deft and strongly written, and perhaps most exciting, he shows us Sam Spade at the beginning of his career, deepening our appreciation of the character. I loved it.” —Robert Ferrigno “I was amazed at Joe Gore’s Spade & Archer. He’s got Hammett’s style down, and the story he tells is ...
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Mar 9, 2010 · “No one understands Dashiell Hammett better than Joe Gores, and no one but Joe Gores could have produced such a masterful and faithful rendering of the prequel to The Maltese Falcon. Spade & Archer stands on its own as a taut, engrossing existential crime saga set in San Francisco’s vibrant 1920’s, and as an evocation of Hammett’s style ...
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Spade & Archer. Paperback – 25 Nov. 2010. by Joe Gores (Author) 4.2 153 ratings. See all formats and editions. The stunning prequel to Dashiell Hammett's crime classic THE MALTESE FALCON. 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 ...
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