Nick finds two bombs inside the car, after which Mike visits Velda, who is leery of pursuing Christina's murder. In the morning, a new car is in front of Mike's building, and the suspicious Mike asks his mechanic, Nick, to examine it. When Mike goes home, he receives a phone call from an unidentified man, offering a token of appreciation if he will pretend that he never met Christina. Lily explains that Christina was very frightened lately, but she does not know why, nor does she know the identity of the men who came to question her after Christina's death. Upon entering Lily's rundown apartment, Mike finds the nervous woman leveling a pistol at him. Remembering that Christina stated she was named after the poet Christina Rossetti, Mike picks up a volume of her poetry from Christina's nightstand, then looks for Lily. When Mike visits the boardinghouse where Christina lived, he learns that her roommate, Lily Carver, is gone, although a moving man tells him Lily's new address. Despite interference from an unknown attacker, Mike locates Diker, who, although terrified, tells Mike that Christina's last name was Bailey and gives him her address.
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Their conversation is interrupted by Pat, who revokes Mike's private detective license and gun permit, then dismisses Mike's speculations about Diker, a newspaper science editor who disappeared recently. At his apartment, Mike tells Velda that they are going to investigate anyway, and she reveals that a man named Ray Diker called while he was in the hospital. Mike refuses to divulge any information, and after he is released, Pat warns him not to pursue the matter. When Mike leaves the hospital, he is detained by federal agents, who question him about Christina. Mike's friend, police captain Pat Murphy, is also happy to see him recovering. Mike jumps from the car just in time, however, and three days later, is wakened in the hospital by his devoted secretary and girl friend, Velda Wickman. After Mike passes out again, he and the now-dead Christina are put into his car, which is pushed over a cliff to make it look like they died in an accident. When Mike awakens, he hears Christina scream as she is being tortured, but because he is lying face-down, he cannot identify his captors, although he does notice that one wears a distinctive pair of shoes. Just then, a car blocks their way and Mike is knocked unconscious by the occupants. Mike is intrigued by Christina's demeanor and her plea to remember her if anything should happen. When they stop at a gas station, Christina gives the attendant a letter to mail and looks relieved.
After Mike bluffs his way past the officer, the woman, named Christina, admits that she is the escapee, but insists that she was being held prisoner at the sanitarium.
Before Mike can learn more, they are stopped at a roadblock, and the police reveal that they are looking for a woman who escaped from a nearby sanitarium. As they drive, the panicked woman, who is wearing only a trenchcoat, asks Mike to drop her at the nearest bus stop. Although Mike upbraids the woman, he gives her a ride. One night, private detective Mike Hammer is driving home to Los Angeles when he is stopped by a woman standing in the highway.
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