He has what we would now call his “trophy wife,” and that is enough for him.īut then Malloy, having served an eight-year sentence, is released from prison. He becomes her regular companion, to which Mr.
Having purchased the silence of Jessie Florian, Velma now has to worry about Marriott, letting him have enough money so that he doesn’t have to work anymore. Grayle, but changes her first name to Helen as well. He agrees to marry her in Europe and then sell his radio station, thereby making it difficult for anyone else to track her down. Grayle, whom she has agreed to marry, after telling him about her situation with Malloy. Therefore, Velma has Marriott buy her off with an expensive radio and monthly payments in exchange for holding the trust deed on her house, which means he could throw Jessie out on the street if she doesn’t keep her mouth shut.īut it’s not Marriott’s money that is paying for all this. She doesn’t know that Velma turned Malloy in for the reward, but she knows enough about her past to be a concern. She goes to the station and sees that she is right. One day Jessie hears Velma singing on the radio and recognizes her voice. Apparently, it is a small world in Bay City. One member of that family is Lindsay Marriott, who is an announcer at the radio station where Velma is employed. Needing a job, she goes to work as a servant for a family by the name of Marriott. 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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