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...floozy (Esther Howard) who could bring Hogarth up to date. Before long he finds himself suspected of murder and hired by several conflicting sides in a fight whose meaning and dimension he only gradually finds out. It involves invaluable jade, the slaughter of a gigolo, a psychoanalytic theosophist (Otto Kruger), a charlatan (Ralf Harolde), an aging multimillionaire (Miles Mander), his sexy young wife (Claire Trevor), and her angry stepdaughter (Anne Shirley). The wife treats the shabby detective with brazen cozyness, the theosophist slams him across the chops with a pistol, the charlatan pumps him full of dope, the stepdaughter feeds...
...Disturb. Otto Wilson smashed his fist against her as soon as she had taken off her clothes. Her neck was thin. After she had stopped breathing he remembered his knife-left behind at the Barclay. He walked to the washbowl, rubbed his face with soap & water, and shaved. Then he lifted out the razor blade, knelt beside the body on the floor, and pressed down with the thin bit of steel. He cut his hand. But he lingered awhile. On the way out he stopped before the desk clerk and said: "My wife is sleeping. Please don't disturb...
Then he walked into the Red Front Bar, a few steps up the street. Nobody paid any attention to him. Soon, at both hotels, police were tramping the corridors, staring with disbelief at the ghastly things Otto Wilson had done...
When a policeman came into the bar, Otto Wilson was talking to another woman. The policeman came up behind him, looked at his cut hand, clapped a handcuff on his wrist...
...police headquarters Otto Wilson first politely denied, then politely confessed his crimes. In his cell, red-eyed, unsteady, but calm, he kept his black hair neatly combed. It was impossible to guess what he was thinking. Outside, his first victim's husband cried to police: "Leave me alone with that guy for five minutes and I'll save the state a lot of money...