Sam Spade

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Sam Spade

Sam Spade, is as gray as the economic skies over America and moves through the story as cool and slick as a Teflon cat. -Stephen Sullivan, 2011

Sam Spade is the protagonist in Dashiell Hammett's novel The Maltese Falcon (1930) and the various films and adaptations based on it, as well as in A Man Called Spade and Other Stories by Hammett.

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. …more

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Books with Sam Spade

	The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 3.87 avg rating — 115,002 ratings — published 1930 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightmare Town: Stories by Dashiell Hammett 4.05 avg rating — 2,302 ratings — published 1999 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett 4.29 avg rating — 2,005 ratings — published 1987 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon by Joe Gores 3.68 avg rating — 1,463 ratings — published 2009 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories by Dashiell Hammett 3.89 avg rating — 1,090 ratings — published 1944 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Batman: Detective, No. 27 by Michael E. Uslan 3.36 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 2003 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Four Great Novels: The Dain Curse / The Glass Key / The Maltese Falcon / Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett 4.31 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1930 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maltese Falcon And Other Sam Spade Stories: The Ultimate Dashiell Hammett by Dashiell Hammett 3.97 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2011 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Detective Stories by Maurice Richardson (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1943 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars