Spade & Archer

When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we expect straight talk, hard questions and no favours. We know that his late partner, Miles Archer, was a son of a bitch; that Spade is sleeping with Archer's wife Iva and that his secretary, Effie Perine, is the only innocent in his life. But in SPADE & ARCHER we discover how Spade became who he is... 1921: Spade sets up his agency in San Francisco dealing with booze runners, waterfront thugs, swindlers, smugglers, murder, other men's mistresses and long-missing money. He'll bring in Archer as a partner - and he'll tangle with a villain who never loses his desire to make Spade pay big for ruining what should have been the perfect crime.