Shelton, CT: The First Edition Library/ Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., n/d (c. 2000). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "Sam Spade is a knock-out detective and yet, personally, he cares not a hoot for the law; so little so that constantly is he just on the verge of being pulled by the 'Frisco cops. When Spade goes out after anything neither lead slugs, women, nor the Old Nick himself can stop him..... More