You pretended it was your imagination, but it isn""t.Then that queer dull feeling in your right arm.You can""t laugh that off.I""ll tell you how you got hose burns on your fingers - a cigarette! You didn""t feel the burns because your sensory nerves are paralyzed...She kills like she kisses!" ("Careful, Dick...she""s as cute as lace pants...but you can""t stop a murderess...if you stop a bullet first!")"FORGET THAT FEELING - She""s got murder in her heart!""The Screen""s Great Mystery Wallop Electrified With High Voltage Thrills, Action, and Excitement!""A Night of Murder the Police Won""t Let Him Forget! The Only Key to His Safety - A Woman""s Face He Can""t Remember!""Hard-boiled, two-fisted, smashing through a crimson maze of treachery, violence, and MURDER!"There were basically three separate narratives that were neatly woven together (Chandler had also woven together hree short stories to create his own narrative in his 1940 novelFarewell, My Lovely):the search for a love-sick ex-con""s missing ex-lady friend, a show-girlthe search for a ""stolen"" jade necklace, including identifying who killed the ""money-bearer"" during the late-night delivery of a ransom paymentthe winding criminal path followed by a lowly show-girl o elevate (and maintain) her social standing as a wealthy, gold-digging, promiscuous trophy wifeThe film""s MacGuffin (a Hitchcockian stand-by) was he menacing femme fatale""s valuable jade necklace worth $100,000 around which much of the action occurred.The only reason that the film wasn""t nominated eleven times was because Phyllis Dalton""s name was inadvertently not submitted for contention in the Best Costume Design category (won byThe Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm!)." He asks, dubiously: "Have you everhandledan outboard boat?" She responds confidently: "Oh, of course.