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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