Chapters 54 - 57 Conclusion, Josh and Karen are thrown into the river and must find someway to get saved and get back on board Josh's boat.

Chapters 51 - 53 Josh collects $500K for the Faltese Malcom, meets Karen to swap money for newspaper and is kidnaped.  Kidnappers find newspaper instead of money and hold Josh on his boat.  Karen agrees to come with money.

Chapters 47 - 50 When Josh goes to the Fat Man with the Maltese Falcon, they find it if lead and anther shoot em' up.  Josh returned to modern times and Josh goes back to his boat and a man gives him heritage left him by Effie, the Faltese Malcom

Chapters 43 - 46  Josh determines money could be made with modern knowledge back in '27 stock market.  He waks up again in Sain Francis, and Mahony tries to kill Josh and Effie, Tong Queen rescues them, but then the Fat Man kidnaps O'Shaughnessy.

Chapters 40 - 42 As Effie deposits Mahony's money, and big shoot e'' up takes play, Josh is knocked out and awakes on board his boat where FBI shows up and want Josh to meet with Fargin, Josh and Karen retrun to laft apartment.

Chapters 36 - 39 - They plan a trap for Fargin, plan goes awry and Josh ends up back in Fan Fran in middle of gang war.  Bad guys kill one another, Josh ends up with money, and he meets with guy who has Maltese Falcon and a knife in his back.

Chapters 33 - 35 -  Karen reminisces about Christmas, Josh gives her a present, they make love, order pizza in, go through Greenstreets stuff to find Greenstreet's double crossing everyone, stealing the Falcon and selling it twice.

Chapters 29 - 32 - Josh goes to bed and wakes up at BWI, Greensteet dead and Binky and Frog after he and Karen.  Before they leave, Josh cleans out Greenstreet's temporay locker, and return loft apartment I go through Greenstreet's stuff.

Chapters 25 - 28 - Finds out Miss Marvel is really Sally O'Shaughnessy and wants the Faltese Malcom, but when he gets back to Spaid's apartment, the fat man tells him it is actually the Maltese Falcon, and gives him the Falcon's history.

Chapters 22 - 24 - Karen takes Josh to her boss's apartment, they discover Buckeys is really arms dealer Greenstreet.  Josh falls asleep and wakes back in San Fran where he is accused of killing Fribay, the man with the Maltese Falcon.

Chapters 19 - 21 - Josh and Karen escape the apartment with the police looking for them, then they run into two sleazy detectives who are looking for falcon missile, afterward the FBI confronts them looking for the same thing.

Chapters 16 - 18 - Spaid IDs body for cops, Polshed and Edinborough, then goes to Spaid's apartment and bed.  Awakes back at Karen's, gets in trouble with Binky and Frog at Kar Park, then goes back to Karens to find police are after him and Karen.

Chapters 13 - 16 - Josh, as Spaid, finds out Bowman has been murdered, then he is kidnaped by bad guy Mahony, who wants money, and then by Mahony's enemy, a Chinese Ton Queen who makes love to him, and finally police detectives grill him at the crime scene.

Chapters 10 - 12 - Josh and Karen return to Buckys's, but when they arrive, the building blows up. They go to Karen's place and crash.  When Josh wakes, he's back in Spaid's office in San Fran where his partner's wife puts the moves on him.

Chapters 7 - 9 -  Josh awakes back in Washington, and at Buckys's house Karen Sawyer administer first aid.  Then finding out a bad guy is on the way, they skedaddle down to an eatery where Josh sketches Karen's face to prove to her he is an artist.

Chapters 4 - 6 - Josh awakes in a San Fran police car, in 1927.  He is occupying someone else's body, that of private eye, S. Paid, Spaid, with Mile Bowman as partner and Effie as secretary.  He glimpses his new face in a mirror and passes out.

Chapters 1 - 3 - Joshua Punch breaks into Buckys' Washington house, gets bopped on the head, and time-transports to San Francisco in 1927, gets bopped again and awakens back at Buckeys where he meets Karen Sawyer, then is confronted by two men who bop again.