When a hard-fighting detective arrives in Personville and finds that his client has been murdered, he decides to investigate local gangland activities.

Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. A controversial political activist who stood for civil liberty, he was also a very private man. In this biography, the author uses…

But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade’s partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby’s trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and…

Of Hammett’s sixth book, published in 1931, The New York Times wrote the developing relationships among the characters are as exciting as the unfolding story .

The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories is a collection of seven short stories (three of them with Detective Sam Spade), written by American author of detective novels and…

A murder involves Sam Spade in a dangerous search for a valuable statue.

Includes four linked stories - The House in Turk Street , The Girl with the Silver Eyes , The Big Knockover and $106,000 Blood Money - featuring the Continental Op…

When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, investigators know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, and no favors. Spade & Archer is a gritty, pitch-perfect, hard-boiled…