This is FRESH AIR. Author Dashiell Hammett introduced the character of San Francisco detective Sam Spade in his 1930 novel "The Maltese Falcon." Hammett subsequently featured Sam Spade in a few short ...

At first, AMC's new series "Monsieur Spade" may sound like a fish-out-of-water story. Sam Spade, the trench-coated San Francisco private eye stranded in small-town France. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LES ...

Clive Owen obsessively studied Humphrey Bogart's performance in "The Maltese Falcon" to step into the role of Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's legendary private eye for AMC's "Monsieur Spade" series. The ...

Sam Spade is back on the case. The Sam Spade that we meet in Monsieur Spade, though, is a couple decades older than the one we know from The Maltese Falcon, with Spade enjoying retirement in the South ...

CORRECTS BOOK TITLE - FILE - Novelist Dashiell Hammett, author of "The Maltese Falcon" appears in New York on Nov. 7, 1947. Hammetts Sam Spade, will be continued by prize-winning crime writer Max ...

AMC has a new series set in southern France in the 1960s that examines the fallout from France’s colonialism in Algeria as well as the fate of World War II Nazi collaborators. Much of this drama, ...

Sam Spade was once the greatest detective to ever live (maybe only in San Francisco), but now he’s retired and living in France, much to the chagrin of anyone who ever knew him. Spade is driving a ...

Feel free to connect with him or check out his work. He's everywhere — Upwork, YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud, Collider, LinkedIn, Instagram. Clive Owen stars as Sam Spade in the new crime limited ...

When a show starts with dialogue as wicked as what we enjoyed between Sam and Philippe in 1955, you know you're in for an entertaining hour. Every word from Spade's mouth was golden, and Philippe did ...

While it has been a second since I’ve read The Maltese Falcon or seen the movie, I suspect that in either version of the story Sam Spade didn’t spend all of his time studiously avoiding detective work ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — The story of one of the ...