A radio adaptation of the thrilling and fast moving detective story The Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart as private detective Sam Spade, Mary Astor as Miss Wonderly, Sydney Greensteet as Kasper Gutman and Peter Lorre as Joel Cairo., all four playing their original 1941 film roles.

This is the story of the Maltese Falcon, a black statuette of a bird, and of the people whose lives it touched. It began in San Francisco when a beautiful young woman who identified herself as Miss Wonderly walked in to the offices of Spade and Archer, Private Detectives. Miss Wonderly had just told Sam Spade why she wished to engage detectives when Spade's partner Miles Archer entered the office. Miss Wonderly wants a guy named Floyd Thursby trailed and soon after Thursby ends up dead along with Miles Archer. Miss Wonderly is not who she says she is, she's a compulsive liar in search of the Maltese Falcon. Meantime criminal Joel Cairo has offered Sam Spade $5000 for the Maltese Falcon. But who has the Falcon statuette and why are they all in search of it? 

At intermission you will hear Paul Whiteman and his orchestra and featuring Roy Bargy on the piano play their version of George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue