Meet Sam Spade
Dashiell Hammett in only a handful of stories created one of the most enduring detectives in literature. The Maltese Falcon made Sam Spade one of the most famous detectives in fiction.
"Don't worry about the story's goofiness. A sensible one would have had us all in the cooler."
Who is Sam Spade?
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 books 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 a...
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- Sam Spade
- Created by Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) "When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't matter what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it."
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Directed by John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George. Sam Spade, a private detective, gets involved in a murderous hunt for a valuable statuette. Visit IMDb for Photos, Showtimes, Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary, Comments, Discussions, Taglines, Trailers, Posters, Fan Sites
- Sam Spade Radio Shows on the Internet Archive
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Dashiell Hammett books from Amazon
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Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 - January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), the newspaper comic strip Secret Agent X-9 and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse). In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in The New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction".
Dashiell Hammett Links
- American Masters . Dashiell Hammett | PBS
- Dashiell Hammett was born on the eastern shore of Maryland in 1894. The second of three children, he dropped out of school at the age of thirteen. He worked a succession of low-paying jobs including freight clerk, railroad laborer, messenger boy, and stevedore. In 1915 he began working on and off as a detective for the Pinkerton Agency.
- Dashiell Hammett
- Dashiell Hammett, author of hard-boiled detective fiction including Maltese Falcon, Thin Man and other mysteries
- Authors and Creators: Dashiell Hammett
- Authors and Creators - Dashiell Hammett
Also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett (1894-1961) "Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people
that commit it for reasons."
--Raymond Chandler
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- OhMe OhMe Oct 10, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
- Neat lens. I enjoyed reading all about Sam Spade and learned some new things as well. Thanks
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