Author Dashil Hammett

Private detective Sam Spade addresses a young beauty Miss Wanderley, who came from San Francisco after running away with her lover sister. She must return her home and in the evening meets with the mediator, who will specify the whereabouts of the fugitives. To conduct a woman is taken by Spade's companion - Miles Archer. When both the facilitator and Archer are killed, suspicion falls on Space himself, who is silent, covering the interests of the client. But his client is not who he claims to be, and soon has to turn again to Spade with a request to save her from the pursuers, who need a statuette ...