Spade and Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's the Maltese Falcon - Softcover

Joe Gores

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1409117537 ISBN 13: 9781409117537

Publisher: Orion, 2010

Synopsis

Rare Book

About this title

About the Author:

Joe Gores (1931--) was educated at Notre Dame University and Stanford University, served in the US Army, writing biographies of generals, and spent twelve years as a San Francisco private investigator. He is the author of the acclaimed DKA Files series and has written screenplays and television scripts. He has won three Edgar Allan Awards and Japan's Maltese Falcon Award.

Review:

Not only authentically Hammett-ish but also a great stand alone read...a classy ventriloquist act of a book. * CATHOLIC HERALD * Joe Gores has acheived a near perfect duplication of the self-styled detective Sam Spade * TELEGRAPH & ARGUS * And the great testament to Gore's skill is that, within minutes of opening it, you're very likely to have forgotten you're not actually reading a Dashiell Hammett novel. The great gumshow is back. In spades. * THE HERALD * Stunning * BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH * Beginning in 1921, it maps out the back story to Sam Spade and Mike Archer's relationship via a pleasingly intricate and atmospherically hard-boiled plot before ending at the exact point The Maltese Falcon begins. * LONDON METRO * Gores catches to perfection the period flavour, the noirish atmosphere and, above all, Hammett's terse style...It left me aching for more. -- Simon Shaw * MAIL ON SUNDAY *

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1409117537
• ISBN 13: 9781409117537
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352