Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.

The main character, Sam Spade, appears only in this novel and in three lesser known short stories, yet is widely cited as the crystallizing figure in the development of the hard-boiled private detective genre – Raymond Chandler's character Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Hammett's Spade.

Spade and Archer take the assignment because the money is good, but Spade implies that the woman looks like trouble.

That night, Spade receives a phone call telling him that Archer is dead.

Later that night, Polhaus and Lieutenant Dundy visit Spade and inquire about his recent whereabouts, and say that Thursby was also killed and that Spade is a suspect.

Later, Spade is visited by Joel Cairo, who offers Spade $ 5, 000 if he can retrieve a figurine of a black bird that has recently arrived in San Francisco.

Spade bluffs, saying he can get it, but wants to know what it is first.

Spade says that the penalty for murder is most likely twenty years, but if they hang her, he will always remember her.

Spade is a bitter, sardonic character who lets the police and the criminals think he is in with the criminals while he works singlemindedly to catch the crooks.

Spade attempts to explain himself to Brigid O ' Shaughnessy with the Flitcraft parable, in which Hammett makes an oblique reference to the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, but O ' Shaughnessy has no idea what he is getting at.

At the time of Miles Archer's death, Spade is having an affair with Archer's wife, and while he does the " right thing " in the end, catching and turning in Archer's murderer, his reasons for doing so are somewhat ambiguous.

It is left unclear whether Spade might have chosen not to turn Brigid in if there was a bigger monetary gain for him ("... a lot more money would have been one more item on your side "), but certain that his emotional attachment to her ( however strong that is ) is not sufficient to overcome the risks involved with letting her go.

The Spade Ranch house is also the home to the Mogollon Monster story, which is a classic traditionally told for every group of campers that come through each week during the summer camp.

Spade is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Lamb County, Texas, United States.

To the north of Spade is the Triple Arrow Ranch, a spread with historic relics owned by Lamb County Commissioner's Court Judge William A. Anderson, Jr., and his wife, LeNora Jo Thompson.

Spade is located at ( 33. 918381 ,-102. 149654 ).

Neapolitan, Piacentine, Triestine, and Sicilian cards are divided into Coppe ( Cups ), Ori or Denari ( Golds or Coins ), Spade ( Swords ) and Bastoni ( Clubs ), while Piemontesi, Milanesi and Toscane cards use the ' French ' suits, that is Cuori ( Hearts ), Quadri ( Diamonds, literally " Squares "), Fiori ( Flowers ) and Picche ( Spades, literally " Pikes ").

In The Vampire Lestat, he notes that despite his French accent, he speaks English " like a cross between a boatman and Sam Spade " and is fond of slang.

In 1787 a new design of reverse featuring a spade-shaped shield was introduced, with the same legend ; this has become known as the Spade Guinea.

In 1787 a new design of reverse featuring a spade-shaped shield was introduced, with the same legend ; this has become known as the Spade Half-Guinea.

* Spade bit: A historic vaquero design with straight, highly decorated shanks and a mouthpiece that includes a straight bar, a narrow port with a cricket, and a " spoon ," a flat, partly rounded plate affixed above the port, supported by braces on either side.

Spade says that Cairo and O ' Shaughnessy were merely play-acting, which the officers seem to accept.

On July 1, 2006, Spade Independent School District, which formerly served Spade, merged with Olton ISD to form Olton ISD.

His work on the liar paradox has been most recently studied by Paul Spade and Stephen Read ( for which see Spade's entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which offers a brief exposition ).

Philip Marlowe's character is foremost within the genre of hardboiled crime fiction that originated in the 1920s, notably in Black Mask magazine, in which Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op and Sam Spade first appeared.

He has bolts in his ears, and his whole left arm is replaced with a large blade, which resembles a Spade.

Upon completion of Galleria IV, the shopping mall totaled 2. 4 million ft² ( 220, 000 m² ) of retail space which include many high-end boutiques, such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Kate Spade, Ralph Lauren, Coach, Fendi, Chanel, Christofle, Yves Saint Laurent, Burberry, Versace, Prada, and Tory Burch.

The Maltese Falcon, first published as a serial in the pulp magazine Black Mask, is the only full-length novel in which Spade appears.

Tie-in with radio show The Adventures of Sam Spade, which Wildroot also sponsored.

She also appeared successfully in such dramas as the original 1931 film version of The Maltese Falcon starring Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade, in which she played Miles Archer's treacherous widow.

One of the groups which played at the Venice Pier Ballroom was led by Jimmy Wakely with Spade Cooley, his successor as bandleader, on fiddle.

* The last high school commencement ceremony held in Spade, which features a wounded Korean War veteran finally graduating from his school.

Madsen played Sam Spade in Yuri Rasovsky's Grammy-nominated sonic dramatization of The Maltese Falcon, which also features Sandra Oh and Edward Herrmann.

" Hollywood Minute " was a semi-regular sketch on Saturday Night Live in which David Spade lampooned celebrities.

The two took part in an epic final encounter which saw Revolution members ( including Johnny Spade, Mark Magnus, and Rob Conway ) handcuffed to Damaja's allies ( including Nick Dinsmore and Johnny Jeter ) with Matt Morgan on the entrance ramp to prevent any more run-ins.

Although his agent lined up possible roles for the actor in The Cable Guy ( for which he was offered $ 3 million ) and Kingpin, but the movie studio remained firm on wanting another buddy comedy with Farley and Spade.

He also took her to see performances by Spade Cooley, Tex Williams and Bob Wills, which left a lasting impression.

One of the groups which played at the Venice Pier Ballroom in Venice, California, was led by Jimmy Wakely with Spade Cooley on fiddle.

He also appeared in the 2005 pilot for The Showbiz Show with David Spade, in a segment called " The Nerd Perspective ", in which he gave a scathing criticism of MTV and its declining quality.

She also appeared with Chris Farley and David Spade in the movie Tommy Boy, in which she plays Helen the Waitress.

The 2001 film Joe Dirt finds the title character ( played by David Spade ) proudly displaying a large chunk of ' blue ice ' which he has mistaken for a meteorite, and the topic has also been covered on the TV show MANswers.