Joanne B. Reid's Noir Tales
Hardboiled Historical Noir
Stories written in smoke and shadow.
Follow a young Sam Spade across the American West — before the legend, before the Falcon, before the rules.
Rated 5 stars
★★★★★
Rough Cut: The Early Cases of Sam Spade
Before the Maltese Falcon, there was the man learning the trade the hard way. In Butte, Seattle, Victoria, Portland, and San Francisco, a young Sam Spade takes on murder, corruption, bootlegging, and the kind of trouble you only survive by becoming the man he later became.
