A wonderfully dark, pitch-perfect noir prequel to The Maltese Falcon, featuring Dashiell Hammett s beloved detective, Sam Spade.
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,...