Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.

Primera de una serie de 16 películas producidas entre 1941 y 1949, que tuvieron la intención de reemplazar a "El Santo". Gay Lawrence, alias "The Falcon" es un detective privado al que le apasiona resolver crímenes; todo un caballero inglés que siente una gran debilidad por las mujeres hermosas.