Jake Randolph in "The Eternal Night" Pt. 106

I went to pay a visit, with Mason in tow, to a flower shop on Pico Boulevard. The proprietor was a weasel I knew from my detective days called Whistling Eddie. Eddie put the social in social disease. Come to think of it, he put the disease in it too.

The flower shop was a front for all of Eddie's illicit activities: bookmaking, prostitution, and a litany of other wonderful pastimes, including dirty pictures. That's why I wanted Eddie to develop the film. I didn't trust him as far as I could throw him, but I had leverage on him...