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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. Thursby is also killed later and Spade is a suspect. The next morning, Spade coolly tells his office secretary, Effie Perine, to have the office door repainted to read simply 'Samuel Spade'. Others are after this falcon, including Joel Cairo, an effeminate Levantinehomosexual, and Casper Gutman, a fat man accompanied by a vicious young gunman, Wilmer Cook.

O'Shaughnessy begs for Spade's protection while telling him as little as possible. They meet with Cairo at Spade's apartment, and Spade again presses O'Shaughnessy for details; again she stalls but kisses Spade. The next morning, she is asleep in his bed. Leaving her there, Spade slips out to search her apartment.

Effie believes O'Shaughnessy 'is all right' and Spade should help her. Effie agrees to hide her at her own home, but O'Shaughnessy disappears again.

When Spade meets Gutman in his hotel room, neither will tell what he knows. Spade implies he is looking out for himself, not O'Shaughnessy. Red herrings abound. The police suspect Spade in the shootings: he was bedding Archer's wife, Iva. At a second meeting, Gutman tells Spade the history of the falcon. It was made of gold and jewels by the 16th-century Knights of Malta as a gift to the King of Spain but was captured by pirates.

After passing from owner to owner, at some time it was coated with black enamel to conceal its value. Gutman traced the falcon to General Kemidov, a Russian exile in Constantinople and hired O'Shaughnessy to get it; she brought in Cairo to help.

During this conversation, Gutman drugs Spade, who passes out on the floor. Spade awakens alone and returns to his office where a wounded ship's captain staggers in with a package containing the falcon and dies. O'Shaughnessy calls the office, begs for Spade's help, but sends him on a wild goose chase.

When he returns, O'Shaughnessy is waiting in front of Spade's apartment building. Inside Spade's apartment they find Gutman, Wilmer, and Cairo in wait with guns drawn. During a fight, Spade knocks Wilmer out, and Gutman agrees to give Wilmer to the police. Spade has Effie fetch the falcon. But Gutman discovers it is a fake a decoy made by General Kemidov.