Nick Charles, a devilish Greek detective, believes that the time when he solved police cases is long gone. However, when he returns to New York after years, along with his young wife Nora, he meets the daughter of his famous inventor and old friend Clyde Miller Wynant, who asks him to help her find her missing father, who has been missing for two months. And while Nick is determined not to get involved and ignore the case, an armed man breaks into his room and forces him to change his mind.

"The most shocking story of Hammett".

Sinclair Lewis

"Hammett managed to do something that only exceptional writers can do: he wrote scenes that have never been written before".

Raymond Chandler