Duckman is a rude, ignorant, and dateless private detective that solves crimes with the help of his sidekick, Cornfed the Pig, and lives at home with his family after the death of his wife.

Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.