In 1941, Humphrey Bogart played Detective Sam Spade in John Huston’s film noir masterpiece “The Maltese Falcon,” ranked by the American Film Institute as the No. 6 mystery film of all time. Now, Clive ...

Introduced in Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 detective novel “The Maltese Falcon,” the character of Sam Spade became an indelible template for the hard-boiled gumshoe. Humphrey Bogart would bring him to life ...

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 ...

Sam Spade may be back but he’s a continent away from his now-closed San Francisco detective agency. And he’s no longer in black-and-white, much less stuck in the 1930s and ‘40s. The aptly named ...

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 ...

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

Clive Owen stars as Monsieur Spade in an AMC series that finds the Maltese Falcon detective living in a small village in the South of France — until danger, and death, manage to find him again. This ...