Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade and his partner Miles Archer are hired by the lovely Miss Wonderly to follow a man, Floyd Thursby, who has supposedly run off with Miss Wonderly's yonger sister. Spade and Archer take the assignment because the money is good, but Spade suggests that Miss Wonderly looks like trouble. And trouble she proves to be. Archer is murdered while on Thursby's trail and Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted. Can Spade track down the jewel-encrusted falcon, a treasure obviously worth killing for, or will the Fat Man outwit him? How far can he trust Miss Wonderly? And even when he emerges triumphant from the twists and turns of this troublesome case, is he going to have to marry Iva Archer? | MALTESE FALCON by DASHIELL HAMMETT, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters