Chapters 31 through 38 Summary

Marlowe receives a call from Linda Loring who asks him to meet with her father. He does and Harlan Potter tells him that he can and will have Marlowe's private investigator's license revoked if Marlowe drags up any new suspects in the murder of Sylvia.

Marlowe gets a call from Roy Ashterfelt, the man who had met Terry Lennox going under the name Paul Marston. He confirms that it was Lennox and insists that he wasn't mistaken about the identity. He also says Marston was wearing a British military insignia. Marlowe learns from the police that Terry Lennox had no military record and no record "of any kind under any name."

Roger invites Marlowe for lunch at his house and writes him a thousand dollar check, presumably for his services on the night Roger was drunk. Marlowe gives Roger the typed...