 | The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $0.01 Dashiell Hammett created Sam Spade for his novel The Maltese Falcon. It is one of the best detective novels ever written--many people say THE best ever. If you want to know Spade, start with this suspenseful, entertaining gem.
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 | Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon by Joe Gores
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $8.25 Where did Sam Spade come from? How did he get so hardboiled? Why did he call his partner Miles Archer "a son of a bitch"? How did he meet his secretary Effie? What's the story behind Spade's affair with Archer's wife Iva? 3-time Edgar Award-winner (and former SF detective) Gores wondered. His dream project was to write this fast-paced, fun prequel. To enjoy it fully, read The Maltese Falcon first.
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 | Nightmare Town: Stories by Dashiell Hammett
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.20 After the success of The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett wrote 3 Sam Spade short stories. This anthology collects all 3 Spade stories, plus 17 other Hammett stories. Hammett biographer William F. Nolan contributes an introduction.
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 | Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade: The Evolution of Dashiell Hammett's Masterpiece, Including John Huston's Movie with Humphrey Bogart (The Ace Performer Collection series)
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $8.50 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: "A treasure beyond price for fans of both the classic Hammett novel and the three (that's right, three) film versions of the doomed quest for a black bird. An incredible amalgam of photos, memos, letters, reviews, whatever, this will make fans of the book or the film gasp as one unexpected delight succeeds another. With this book, wonders really do never cease."
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 | The Dashiell Hammett Tour: Thirtieth Anniversary Guidebook (The Ace Performer Collection series) by Don Herron
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.30 Herron has conducted his Dashiell Hammett Tour of San Francisco since 1977. His book gives a breezy, fact-packed tour of surviving places Hammett lived, worked, and wrote about, including the majority of locations in The Maltese Falcon: Sam Spade's office, Sam Spade's apartment, restaurants where Spade ate, etc. Great fun. Includes intro by Charles Willeford, preface by Hammett's daughter Jo.
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 | The Radio Adventures of Sam Spade by Martin Grams
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $27.94 For 5 years, The Adventures of Sam Spade was the top-rated radio detective series, even while it battled network censors and the blacklist to stay on the air. This book recounts the surprising history of the Sam Spade series, its stars, and its writers, plus summaries of all episodes and a script for one episode.
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