 Later, when Marlowe views the pictures, he is confirmed in his belief that there is more to the case than a missing person.Marlowe traces the masked woman to a movie star, Mavis Wald, and her friend, exotic dancer Dolores ("with an O") Gonzales.He suspects Wald being involved in the murder of a blackmailer who had photographs showing her having a rendezvous with mobster boss Sonny Steelgrave, and offers her his help, which she rejects.