 I'm Greg Bell, and we'll open with Dashiell Hammett's Private Eye as voiced by Howard Duff, and then later make our weekly visit with Mary Foster, the editor's daughter. Sam Spade made his literary debut in the 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon. Just one year later, that character came to the big screen, played not yet by Humphrey Bogart, but rather by Ricardo Cortez.