Synopsis:

• A fragile young lady, Miss Wonderly, hires the detective firm of Spade and Archer to help her find her runaway sister.
  
  
• When Archer is abruptly killed while shadowing Miss Wonderly's adversary, Spade is drawn into a labyrinthine plot to obtain a jewel encrusted statue of questionable origins.
  
  
• Even as he wards off murderous Meditarranean smugglers and San Franciso homicide detectives, he finds himself drawn into a web woven by his beautiful, but dangerous, client.
  
  
• Greed, betrayal, and murder swoop down San Francisco's fog draped hills in the form of a mysterious black bird, littering the pavement below with bullet-torn conspirators, jilted lovers, and shattered dreams.
  
  "A story of deceit and murder, of double-crossing and steamy passion, the world premiere of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Flacon, adapted for the stage and directed by Helen Borgers for the Long Beach Shakespeare Company, proves that all is fair in love and war"
  
  

  The Crowded Kitchen Players Cast:
  

  • David Oswald, Carla Thew, Jay Fletcher, Jack McGavin, Tom Harrison, Pamela Wallace, Nancy Mikkelsen, Jim Symmons, Michael Thew
    

    Stage Manager:
    

    • Elizabeth Buss
      

      Technical Assistance:
      

      • Sarah Thomas
        
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