Sam Spade Sam Spade Sam Spade is a fictional private detective and the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel, "The Maltese Falcon". Spade also appeared in four lesser-known short stories by Hammett. "The Maltese Falcon", first published as a serial in the pulp magazine "Black Mask", is the only full-length novel in which Spade appears. The character, however, is widely cited as a crystallizing figure in the development of hard-boiled private detective fiction—Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Spade. Spade was a departure from Hammett's nameless and less-than-glamorous detective, The Continental Op. Spade combined several features of previous
Millennium Falcon (novel) Millennium Falcon (novel) Millennium Falcon (2008) is a novel by James Luceno set in the "Star Wars" expanded universe about the history of Han Solo's starship, the "Millennium Falcon". It was originally set to be released on December 30, 2008, but was pushed up to October 21, 2008. At the end of the book is an introduction to the novel "Outcast", the first novel in the "Fate of the Jedi" series. Much of the novel delves into the long and exciting history of the "Millennium Falcon", as it had been called many names and had many intriguing adventures, from the