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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