{"product_id":"spade-archer-2","title":"Joe Gores: Spade \u0026 Archer [2009] hardback","description":"When 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. 1921: 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 ...S\u003cbr\u003ePADE \u0026amp; ARCHER is a gritty, pitch-perfect, hard-boiled novel - the work of a master mystery writer-destined to become a classic in its own right.","brand":"Gores, Joe","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48679095828819,"sku":"XV81409113232","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/gores-joe-spade-archer-xv81409113232-56110590132563.jpg?v=1726621697","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/spade-archer-2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}