When the blood-splattered Jesse looked in a full-length mirror, he saw Freddy Krueger staring back at him.The client ostensibly asks Spade for help in locating her sister, who vanished after writing that she was in San Francisco (she had left General Delivery as her only address).He reached for his chest, but said he only had "indigestion." After Packard left, Fosdick expressed his opinion about the bullish and corrupt tycoon:I wouldn""t trust that man as far as I could throw a bull by the tail.The American expatriate hero (a falsely-accused former cat burglar) has to catch the real cat burglar (a ""she-cat"") during a rash of robberies before he is caught himself, while the heroine is on a quest to ""catch"" him - first as the burglar, and then as a husband.