Joe Gores, a three-time Edgar Award winner and most recently, the author of SPADE AND ARCHER, the authorized prequel to THE MALTESE FALCON, died Monday. He was 79 and had been in poor health in recent years. A memorial mass will be held on Friday January 21 at 11:30 a.m. at St. Sebastian Catholic Church, 373 Bon Air Road (corner of St. Francis Blvd.) in Greenbrae, California.
