Nick Kolakowski: Smoking Gun (26) – »Monsieur Spade«
‘Monsieur Spade’ and the Faustian Bargain I’ve been reading Ed Simon’s “Devil’s Contract,” about the history of the Faustian bargain, while watching AMC’s six-episode mini-series “Monsieur Spade,” which transplants Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade to the South of France in the 1960s, …