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A wonderfully dark, pitch-perfect noir prequel to The Maltese Falcon, having Dashiell Hammett’s loved detective, Sam Spade.
It’s 1921—seven years before Sam Spade will solve the famous case of the Maltese Falcon. He’s just create his own firm in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA and he gets off to a quick start, working instances (he doesn’t do local) and hiring a glowing young secretary called Effie Perrine. When he’s chosen by a visible SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA banker to find his absent son, Spade provides the rest he’s been looking for. He spends another few years interacting with booze runners, waterfront thugs, banking swindlers, platinum smugglers, and bumbling cops. He brings in Miles Archer as a partner to help strengthen the firm, though it was Archer who stole his lady while he was struggling with in World War I. All along, Spade will tangle with an enigmatic villain who supports a long-standing grudge against Spade. And, of course, he’ll show up in love—though it triumphed in’t turn out for the best. It never does with dames.
