Dashiell Hammett's penultimate work gives detective Sam Spade the perfect platform to do his thing. The role made famous by Humphrey Bogart, Hammett's writing made it easy to create the character, drawing on his many years of work for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Establishing the mystery detective noir, this classic brings the reader front and center into the tail end of the Great Depression, and the heady 1930's. The book is an adventure in words, guaranteeing to draw the reader in, and hold them fast.
