Sam Spade
Fictional Character
STAR TREK!! ROME!! FARSCAPE!! ANDY BARKER!! SPIDER-MAN!! X-MEN!! GI JOE!! SOPRANOS!! MARY TYLER MOORE!! <I>HercVault!!</I>...what's satisfying about "Andy Barker" is that it answers a truly urgent historical question: What would Jake Gittes, Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade have done with Google? Often Andy turns to the old Internet when he wants to find a fact or a... In this article: Rome, Gaius Julius Caesar, Andy Barker P.I., Star Trek, Andy Richter, Titus Pullo, Cleopatra, Bruno Heller, Rome, and Kevin McKidd |
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PopMatters | October 28, 2009
Hard Boiled Heroism For the Kids: MySims Agents (Moving Pixels)
...based on careful studies of evidence and formal problem solving all while sipping tea in the parlor. Detectives like Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade don't so much investigate by reasoning out solutions as much as they get their hands dirty by...
In this article: Raymond Chandler, MySims, Sims, Dog, Sherlock Holmes, Autism, Philip Marlowe, MySims Kingdom, and Miss Marple
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Wikipedia | October 19, 2009
The Maltese Falcon (1931 film)
...on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. It was directed by Roy Del Ruth and stars Ricardo Cortez as private detective Sam Spade and Bebe Daniels in the role of Ruth Wonderly/ Brigid O'Shaughnessy. Also featured are Thelma Todd,...
In this article: The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros., and Bebe Daniels
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The Maltese Falcon (novel)
...was later killed, she knew that Gutman was in town and that she needed another protector, so she came back to Spade. Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in the 1941 film adaptation However, she says that she's also in love with Spade and would...
In this article: The Maltese Falcon and The Maltese Falcon
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washingtonpost.com | October 11, 2009
Review of Arnaldur Indridason's 'Arctic Chill'
344 pp. $24.99 The modern American crime novel was launched in 1930 when Dashiell Hammett introduced the private investigator Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon." Other notable private eyes followed as the two-fisted, hard-drinking,...
In this article: Arnaldur Indridason, Arctic Chill, 87th Precinct, and Ford Falcon
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thestar.com | October 04, 2009
An Irish Sam Spade suffers a mite much
...hardboiled crime fiction," and there's no missing the debt of influence that Hughes and Loy owe to The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade. Spade and Loy have in common a sense of honour and an inclination to gallantry. But in the other qualities...
In this article: Bearnaise sauce, The Maltese Falcon, and Ireland
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Independent.co.uk - Books | October 01, 2009
If The Dead Rise Not, By Philip Kerr
...(free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 If The Dead Rise Not, By Philip Kerr Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe had it easy. Sure, they had to contend with corrupt cops and shifty dames with an eye for the main chance -...
In this article: Berlin, Philip Marlowe, Chicago, Havana, Germany, and Cuba
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Connecticut Post | September 30, 2009
Big Read takes off on wings of 'Maltese Falcon'
...at Shelton's Huntington Branch Library. The book was penned on the eve of the Great Depression and follows private eye Sam Spade as he tries to uncover who killed his partner, as well as the true identity and motive of the beautiful...
In this article: The Maltese Falcon, The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett, Peregrine Falcon, and University of Bridgeport
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Independent.ie | September 18, 2009
All hail Larsson! He's the real deal in thriller mysteries
Whether by osmosis or by some as yet unidentified genetic process, I became a fan of the detective genre too. Although I loved Hammett's Sam Spade, Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Macdonald's Lew Archer, I decided to go back to first...
In this article: Stieg Larsson, Dan Brown, Ross Macdonald, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, The Lost Symbol, Second World War, El Pais, and Philip Marlowe
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Ft. Worth Star-Telegram | July 29, 2009
See 'Sam Shade’ break into song
See 'Sam Shade' break into song Dashiell Hammett created a memorable, sleuthing character in Sam Spade, of The Maltese Falcon fame, and it was only a matter of time before a musical based on Spade's escapades would emerge. In this...
In this article: The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett, and Fort Worth
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The Dashing Return of Sam Spade
...far from flawless, but it was the fountainhead of modern American crime fiction. Hammett's two-fisted, cynical, charismatic, fearless Sam Spade appears only in this one novel, but he was the prototype of all the great private eyes who...
In this article: The Maltese Falcon, Black Mask, The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett, San Francisco, Homophobia, and Rum
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Sam Spade is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's novel The Maltese Falcon (1930) and the various films and adaptations based on it, as well as in three lesser known short stories written by Hammett.
The novel, first published as a serial in the pulp magazine Black Mask, is the only one that Spade appears in, yet the character is widely cited as the crystallizing figure in the development of the hard-boiled private detective genre – Raymond Chandler's character Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Hammett's Spade.
Spade was a departure from Hammett's nameless and less than glamorous detective, The Continental Op. Sam Spade combined several features of previous detectives, most notably his cold detachment, keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice. He is the man who has seen the wretched, the corrupt, the tawdry side of life but still retains his "tarnished idealism". ==History==
Sam Spade was a new character created specifically by Hammett for The Maltese Falcon; he had not appeared in any of Hammett's previous short stories. Hammett says about him:
Spade has no original. He is a dream man in the sense that he is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached. For your private detective does not — or did not ten years ago when he was my colleague — want to be an erudite solver of riddles in the Sherlock Holmes manner; he wants to be a hard and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent by-stander or client.
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