A young man is trapped on a roof as the cops close in. Marlowe tells this  story of murder and robbery in flashback before trying to talk him  down. + “Get this and get it straight, crime is a suckers road and those who  travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave”. This time an  old Spanish woman who cared, a redhead mink who didn’t and a green sued  button beside a corpse all lead Philip Marlowe to a wounded man with a  gun in his hand cornered on a warehouse roof.