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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Sam Spade Information
1,274 words, approx. 4 pages
 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... 
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 Evening Standard - London The real Sam Spade
08/12/2002: 822 words, approx. 3 pages NIGHTMARE TOWN STORIES by Dashiell Hammett (Picador, pounds 6.99) A FEW things Philip Marlowe would never have told you: four rules for shadowing a suspect down those mean streets. "Keep behind your subject as much as possible; never try to hide from... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Call in Sam Spade
11/22/1993: 1,022 words, approx. 3 pages On Saturday night at a Portsmouth, N.H., auction, a copy of the Maltese Falcon from the 1941 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart was purchased for $4,100 by the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain. But that's cheap compared to a statue owned by Gary... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Angry Sportscaster Keith Olbermann Has Piazza's Bat\'d1And Is Keeping It!
3/18/2007: 2,208 words, approx. 7 pagesAs spring training turns serious and the Mets and the Yankees limber their hamstrings in the Land of the Pregnant Chad, the sportscaster Keith Olbermann will now clear up a couple of baseball related items: 1. She’s fine. 2. No, he’s not giving it back....
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Peter Wolfe
537 words, approx. 2 pages
More than two generations of readers have made Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade their model of the hard-boiled private eye. They have enshrined Spade without knowing much about him. What they have overlooked is his heart. His toughness is leavened by both tenderness and subtlety; he has a feminine sensitivity to atmospheres and textures. Though basically a man of action, he doesn't exhaust his personality in man-talk or high-speed movement…. Hammett's complexity of insight brought ne...
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