{"product_id":"spade-archer-1","title":"Joe Gores: Spade \u0026 Archer [2010] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe stunning prequel to Dashiell Hammett's crime classic THE MALTESE FALCON.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favours, and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a second skin. We know that his late partner, Miles Archer, was a son of a bitch; that Spade is sleeping with Archer's wife. What we don't know is how Spade became who he is. Now SPADE \u0026amp; ARCHER completes the picture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1921: Spade sets up his own agency in San Francisco and clients quickly start coming through the door. The next seven years will see him dealing with booze runners, water-front thugs, stowaways, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, bumbling cops, and the illegitimate daughter of Sun Yat-sen; with murder, other men's mistresses, and long-missing money. He'll bring in Archer as a partner, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. He'll tangle with a villain who never loses his desire to make Spade pay big for ruining what should've been the perfect crime. And he'll fall in love - though it won't turn out for the best. It never does with dames...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gores, Joe","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":48679095042387,"sku":"XG81409117537","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/gores-joe-spade-archer-xg81409117537-56109906493779.jpg?v=1726621694","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/spade-archer-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}