2010 Audie Award Winner. A bad woman and a solitary private eye. In this classic of suspense literature and taut American writing, Sam Spade, the Fat Man, Brigid O'Shaughnessey, and Joel Cairo are all after the Maltese falcon, a statue of dubious ownership... but certainly fabulously valuable. And some are willing to kill to get it. "A taut, well-paced audio production... sexy, darkly comic, and broodingly moral... like a jolt of bourbon – it wakes you up and keeps youlistening."—AudioFile