# Spade & Archer

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- Book: [Spade & Archer](https://www.bookquiver.com/joe-gores/spade-archer) ([Spade & Archer.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joe-gores/spade-archer.md))
- Authors: [Joe Gores](https://www.bookquiver.com/joe-gores)
- Publisher: Vintage Crime Black Lizard
- ISBN: 978-03-0727-706-0
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2010-03-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...