The Maltese Falcon (1940) 
.... Right from the beginning, he is an ambiguous character as the camera slides down from reading the letters reversed in his window--"
Spade and
Archer"--to find ....
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7
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Dashiell Hammett
.... In The Maltese Falcon, that hero is Sam
Spade, partner with Miles
Archer in their detective firm,
Spade &
Archer. When
Archer goes ....
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7
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Analysis of The Maltese Falcon and Contempt
.... Protagonist private investigator Sam
Spade and his partner Miles
Archer are hired by a mysterious woman, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, to find her kidnapped sister. ....
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Film Noir-Femme Fatale
....
Archer, more than
Spade, is the typical femme fatale sap. As
Spade tells her, he knows
Archer was just the type of guy who would fall for a dame like her. ....
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Mysteries and Detection
.... In many cases, as with the characters in Hammett's works like Sam
Spade, the protagonists in MacDonald's works, like Lew
Archer, and those in Mosley's works ....
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6
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Mysteries and Detection
.... In many cases, as with the characters in Hammett's works like Sam
Spade, the protagonists in MacDonald's works, like Lew
Archer, and those in Mosley's works ....
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6
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