香水商金斯利一向招蜂引蝶的漂亮太太走了,她捎來一封要求離婚的電報,漢子馬羅受命追查。
在香水商位於小鹿湖邊的渡假小屋,馬羅卻意外發現:小屋跛腳管理員的金髮老婆,竟然深埋在湖中……
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Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing - on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake . . .