![]() But as the neighborhood has been going downhill, she ends up selling it for not much money to a black man named Montgomery. He was the owner of the nightclub where Velma worked, and he leaves the place to his widow Jessie. ![]() Jessie Florian goes to work for Lindsay Marriott (Adjusted for inflation, that would be around $400,000,000 today.) He soon falls in love with Velma. After Moose is convicted and sent to prison, she quits Florian’s and goes to work as a singer at a radio station owned by Lewin Lockridge Grayle, an old and sickly man, but one who is worth $20,000,000. ![]() Rather than let Malloy spend that money on her a little at a time, she turns him in for the reward so she can get a lot of money all at once. He robs a bank in order to have the money he needs to spend lavishly on Velma, but he makes the mistake of confiding in her. He is an extraordinarily huge man, the bouncer of the joint, and he falls madly in love with her. That is where she comes to know Moose Malloy, who also works there. Velma Valento is a beautiful song-and-dance girl that works at a night club named Florian’s in the fictional town of Bay City, California. So, rather than follow Philip Marlowe, the private-eye narrator, through all the dead ends and red herrings that he is subjected to before he solves this mystery, let’s consider the events as they actually occurred. ![]() This novel, published in 1940, is not as complicated and confusing as The Big Sleep, the novel Raymond Chandler wrote before writing this one, but it comes pretty close. ![]()
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