Sam Spade Tapestries

Sam Spade

Selected by the American Film Institute as the greatest male star of classic American cinema, Humphrey Bogart was not only known as a fine actor but also as the founding member of the Rat Pack.

John Huston's classic 1941 film based on Dashiell Hammett's 1931 masterpiece.

Sam Spade

Selected by the American Film Institute as the greatest male star of classic American cinema, Humphrey Bogart was not only known as afine actor but also as the founding member of the Rat Pack.

John Huston's classic 1941 film based on Dashiell Hammett's 1931 masterpiece.

Selected by the American Film Institute as the greatest male star of classic American cinema, Humphrey Bogart was not only known as afine actor but also as the founding member of the Rat Pack.

Selected by the American Film Institute as the greatest male star of classic American cinema, Humphrey Bogart was not only known as afine actor but also as the founding member of the Rat Pack.

Spade and Archer is the name of a San Francisco detective agency. The two men are partners, but Sam doesn't like Miles much. A knockout, who goes by the name of Miss Wonderly, walks into their office; and by that night everything's changed. Miles is dead. And so is a man named Floyd Thursby. It seems Miss Wonderly is surrounded by dangerous men. There's Joel Cairo, who uses gardenia-scented calling cards. There's Kasper Gutman, with his enormous girth and feigned civility. Her only hope of protection comes from Sam, who is suspected by the police of one or the other murder. More murders are yet to come, and it will all be because of these dangerous men -- and their lust for a statuette of a bird.

Original 15x11in pen and ink, watercolor on 140lbs paper. Inspired and based on the radio play "The Adventures of Sam Spade." A pulp radio art digitally enhanced illustration.

I ain't following nobody, doc.

The Maltese Falcon - Alternative Movie Poster

John Huston's classic 1941 film based on Dashiell Hammett's 1931 masterpiece.

From the 1941 film based on the Dashiell Hammett novel.

With this image, we celebrate Dashiell Hammett, the father of a hard-boiled detective novel, the creator of Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon and and indirectly of the film-noir genre.

Dashiell Hammett is the father of a hard-boiled detective novel and an American classic.