And tomorrow another entry in the Sam Spade Sweepstakes rains down. Check out the review by James Reasoner. James likes this kind of thing, even mentions he enjoyed the prequel novel Spade & Archer done by Joe Gores a few years ago.
I could barely skim that one.
A “back story” for Spade beyond the couple of refs in the Hammett novel? Didn’t — and doesn’t — need it.
