Chasing Sam Spade

Somebody is killing old men in San Francisco. Not just any old men, but a group of former Pinkerton detectives. Disgraced detective and notorious roustabout “Crazy Charlie” Boyle claims they were killed because they helped him ferret out clues to a real crime hidden in Dashiell Hammett’s noire classic, The Maltese Falcon. But before he can solve the “old geezer murders” Boyle dies in a suspicious street accident.

Now his estranged son Danny Boyle is on the mean streets of San Francisco’s notorious Tenderloin District investigating the deaths armed only with Charlie’s diary and a coded copy of Hammett’s novel.

Danny slogs through the San Francisco locales that Sam Spade haunted in Hammett’s novel, hoping to unravel the whole story of his father’s murder while being stalked by a killer who has waited more than seventy years to close the case once and for all.

In this updated noire thriller, detective “Crazy Charlie” Boyle is murdered in San Francisco’s notorious Tenderloin District while investigating a 70-year-old crime buried in The Maltese Falcon. Now Charlie’s son must solve both crimes while surviving the mean streets haunted by Sam Spade’s ghost.