Title: The Maltese Falcon
Description: Classic noir. Private detective Sam Spade is hired to search for a valuable, gem-encrusted antique in the shape of a falcon.

Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?
Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, general, San francisco (calif.), fiction, California, fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Spade, sam (fictitious character), fiction, Ficción, Fiction, Hard-boiled detectives, Investigadores privados, Novela de misterio, Private detectives, Private investigators, Sam Spade (Fictitious character), Spade, Sam (Personaje literario), detective fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Literatura,, Ficc ʹa o,, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, American Detective and mystery stories
Places: California, San Francisco, San Francisco (Calif.), Estados Unidos
People: Sam Spade
Time periods: 1940s