Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clive Owen takes on the role of private detective Sam Spade in the new AMC series “Monsieur Spade.” He’s the first actor in ...

Clive Owen obsessively studied Humphrey Bogart’s performance in “The Maltese Falcon” to step into the role of Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett’s legendary private eye for AMC’s “Monsieur Spade” series. The ...

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 ...

Sam Spade may be back but he’s a continent away from his now-closed San Francisco detective agency. And he’s no longer in black-and-white, much less stuck in the 1930s and ‘40s. The aptly named ...

Montgomery County sheriff’s investigators arrested Jeremy Michael Buckner, 35, of Porter, in connection with a fatal hit-and-run on U.S. Highway 59. Detectives arrest Porter man in deadly hit-and-run ...

Clive Owen stars as Monsieur Spade in an AMC series that finds the Maltese Falcon detective living in a small village in the South of France — until danger, and death, manage to find him again. This ...