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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