Clive Owen takes on the role of private detective Sam Spade in the new AMC series “Monsieur Spade.” He’s the first actor in decades to play the Dashiell Hammett character made famous by Humphrey ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

In 1956, five years before he died from decades of bad health fostered by even more decades of heavy drinking, Dashiell Hammett told a newspaper interviewer, “I stopped writing because I was repeating ...

It was cool outside. The rain had stopped, but the dampness seeped into our bones with the chill of death. We walked from our hotel down through the Tenderloin, a no man’s land of desperate ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The story of one of the great fictional sleuths, Dashiell Hammett ‘s Sam Spade, will be continued by prize-winning crime writer Max Allan Collins. The publisher Hard Case Crime ...