Helen attempts to entice Marlowe into helping her murder Amthor. Marlowe deduces that Helen hired him only to set him up for Amthor's interrogations and that Ann was trying to save him from the set-up. Ann leaves to tell her father where his missing wife is. When Marlowe learns that the police had asked Ann's father about the family beach house, which Marriott rented, Marlowe and Ann go there, where they find Helen hiding from the police. Marlowe escapes and convinces Moose that Amthor tricked him, then goes to Ann. Sonderberg's sanatorium, where he is drugged and held for three days.
Moose attacks and subdues Marlowe, then Amthor has Marlowe taken to Dr. In an attempt to locate the jade, Amthor has duped Moose into thinking that Marlowe knows where Velma is. Helen retains Marlowe to try to recover the jade, but Ann tries bribing him to drop the case.ĭick Powell and Claire Trevor from the trailer Jules Amthor, a psychic healer who treated both Helen and Marriott, shows up just as Marlowe is leaving. Grayle collects rare jade and was attempting to recover a stolen necklace. She mentions that the jewels were jade, and introduces him to her weak, elderly, and wealthy father, Leuwen Grayle, and his seductive second wife, Helen. When Marlowe reports the murder, the police ask him if he knows a Jules Amthor, and warn him not to interfere in the case.Īnn Grayle tries to pry information out of Marlowe about the murder. The money is gone, and Marriott has been murdered with repeated blows from a blackjack. When he comes to, a young woman shines a flashlight on his face, then runs away. During the job, Marlowe is knocked unconscious from behind.
The next morning, Lindsay Marriott hires Marlowe to be his bodyguard while he acts as a go-between to pay a ransom for some stolen jewels. Marlowe steals the photo and hears Jessie making a phone call as he leaves. Marlowe tracks down Jessie Florian, the alcoholic widow of the nightclub's former owner, who hides a photo of Velma and says Velma is dead. They go to Florian's, the nightclub where Velma last worked as a singer, but no one remembers her. Marlowe tells how he was hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to locate Malloy's former girlfriend Velma Valento.
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