Private investigator Philip Marlowe gets entangled in a complex web of crime, murder, and blackmail as he is hired to handle a case involving a missing person and a murderess.
Private detective Philip Marlowe gets caught up in a web of crime, double-crossing, and suspicion of murder as he investigates the disappearance of a young man. Along the way, he encounters a femme fatale, an ex-convict, a crime boss, and a series of dangerous encounters that take him deep into the seedy underbelly of 1940s Los Angeles.