This film is adapted from the Joe Gores mystery novel. The story is about a detective writer, Hammett, who has a profound impact on his future work because his career is involved in a complicated mysterious case. Hammett was entrusted to San Francisco to look for a missing Chinese girl named "Xiaojing". As a result, he found a series of murder "suicides". In the course of detective, Hammett was almost killed, but in the end, it was found that the killer was …... In San Francisco in 1928, Hammett, then 34, was still a humble and down-and-out hired writer for a low-level magazine and suffered from lung disease in the army of World War I. Hammett worked for a period of time at Pinkerton Private Detective when he was young, and now he makes a living by writing detective novels. That night, while he was writing the last page of the detective novel, Ryan, the protagonist of the novel, suddenly appeared. He asked Hammett to help him find a 16-year-old Chinese girl named Christine. The novel that Hammett carried with him was lost in the search for Lin, and he lost contact with Ryan. When Hamet returned to her apartment, she saw Lin there. She admitted that Fang Weitang, the leader of the underworld, had sold her to a card.
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