three shporter separate adventures with a through line. Gores has the Hammett style down and it seems like it could well be the "McCoy" instead of the pastiche/homage that it is-to be sure, it is in the style of "Red Harvest" or "The Dain Curse". It never does with dames.įinished this yesterday, and must say I enjoyed it. And, of course, he’ll fall in love—though it won’t turn out for the best. All along, Spade will tangle with an enigmatic villain who holds a long-standing grudge against Spade.
He brings in Miles Archer as a partner to help bolster the agency, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. It’s 1921—seven years before Sam Spade will solve the famous case of the Maltese Falcon. He’s just set up his own agency in San Francisco and he gets off to a quick start, working cases (he doesn’t do domestic) and hiring a bright young secretary named Effie Perrine. When he’s hired by a prominent San Francisco banker to find his missing son, Spade gets the break he’s been looking for. He spends the next few years dealing with booze runners, waterfront thugs, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, and bumbling cops. A wonderfully dark, pitch-perfect noir prequel to The Maltese Falcon, featuring Dashiell Hammett’s beloved detective, Sam Spade.
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