Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting
married - until someone framed Malloy for armed robbery. Now his stretch
is up and he wants Velma back.
PI Philip Marlow meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the
generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help him. Dragged from one
smoky bar to another, Marlowe's search for Velma turns up plenty of
dangerous gangsters with a nasty habit of shooting first and talking
later. And soon what started as a search for a missing person becomes a
matter of life and death....