Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon

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 …

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