Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own code of ethics.

A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a man name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime.

These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's detective fiction.

Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own code of ethics.

A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a man name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime.

These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's detective fiction.

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