The first appearance of Raymond Chandler’s iconic hard-boiled detective- Philip Marlowe, summoned by General Sternwood to deal with his younger daughter blackmailer, Athur Geiger- a homosexual pornographer who peddle smut as a store front, and find Rusty Reagan, his older daughter’s estranged husband. But Arthur Gieger had been murdered when he came and kick off the classic mystery of “Whodunnit?”