Chapters 18 and 19 Summary

Marlowe sits in the bar with a drink in Chapter 18 and listens to the woman on stage singing. He overhears someone at another table mention that the woman is Linda Conquest. He is about to get up when a large man with a frozen eye, Eddie Prue, comes to his table and tells him to follow him.

Marlowe is shown into the office of Alex Morny, who talks tough to him while Prue sits nearby. Morny is angry that he had bothered his wife at home and questioned his chauffeur, but he says he might have use for Marlowe. Marlowe is not intimidated by Morny, and he mentions that he knows someone who looks like Eddie Prue had been seen following a man who had been found dead that afternoon.

Morny asks who was killed and Marlowe tells him. He also...