The Continental is hired to keep Floyd Thursby away from Miss Brigid O'Shaughnessy. They had stolen a medieval painting called the Black Madonna from a Russian general, then cut out the other half of their gang, the fat man Caspar Gutman and the dapper, creepy Joel Cairo.
Eventually the Continentals get their hands on the Madonna, palm off the Austro-Hungarians with a phony Madonna, and the Continental's owner, the celebrated Doc Caliban, buys the painting and gives it to Tadeuz Byreika, Polish demon hunter.
Sources:
The Maltese Falcon, obviously.
Doc Caliban: name from Philip Jose Farmer, nature from Doc Savage.
Tadeuz Byreika: Monster Hunter Legion (I think: the one in Vegas with all the international Hunters.)
Austria-Hungary being run by vampires: A little from Anno Dracula, but a little my own invention.
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