The plot is the kind of predictable mystery you can only put together after the fact. All she did was point it at me and smile. "All she did was take her hand out of her bag, with a gun in it. She's the one who killed Marriott because he knew everything. She is "Velma" and she's the one who put Malloy in prison in the first place. She looked merely like a woman who would have been dangerous a hundred years ago, and twenty years ago daring, but who today was just Grade B Hollywood.” Chandler sets up the perfect classic confrontation, with Malloy hidden in a closet while Marlowe gets the truth out of Mrs. “Suddenly, without any real change in her, she ceased to be beautiful. So was Malloy, for "Velma" back when she was just a club singer. “She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.” She gets around with the likes of Marriott (before he was murdered) and she wouldn't mind landing more than a kiss on Marlowe, either, but the husband don't mind. Grayle is a blonde bombshell, married to money much older than her and not afraid to use it.
“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. The old lady who said so, though, now she's the one who's dead, killed by accident by Moose Malloy, still on the loose. Whatever happened to Velma? Because you can bet she ain't dead. The cops in Bay City aren't all corrupt, they're just stuck in the middle. The missing Moose Malloy was hiding out at the dope hospital. He gets beat up and knocked out at every turn until being sapped on the back of the head becomes kind of his signature move, and he finally starts to piece it together. Marlowe's investigation leads him to a psychic conman, corrupt cops in Bay City, and a dope hospital where they lock him up and keep him sedated. Play the hunch."īeing nosy don't go so well. You can't order a cup of coffee without shutting your eyes and stabbing the menu. In a little while you wake up with your mouth full of hunches. Grayle and gets her to hire him to find the necklace, so he can keep being nosy. The cops don't like the story, but Marlowe meets the girl, a rich blonde named Mrs. A rich young dandy, maybe a gigolo, named Marriott wants to hire him to tag along for a ransom exchange regarding a stolen jade necklace. It makes you look thoughtful when you’re not thinking.” He tracks down the wife of the former owner and bribes her with bourbon to tell him this Velma is dead.
The cops don't bother because the owner was black and it's a black club now, but it didn't used to be. He's minding his own business on a dead-end case, and broke, when an ex-convict named Moose Malloy drags him (literally off the street) into a search for his missing ex-girlfriend, Velma, before killing a nightclub owner at the place she used to sing. Detective Philip Marlowe works in LA during the 30's when he stumbles onto a murder that sucks him into a mystery.
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