Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Tom Lawrence aka Falcon meets McBride asking him about casino owner Louie Buchanan, Fact2: Tom helped put Louie away, Fact3: body by is missing time, Fact4: Billie After finding missing body in identifies deceased room, Fact5: Roxanna exhibits no emotion when shown former husband 's body
Output (English): While on vacation in Los Angeles, Tom Lawrence Tom Conway, aka The Falcon, meets Inspector McBride Emory Parnell at the Hollywood Park Racetrack, asking him about casino owner Louie Buchanan Sheldon Leonard. Tom helped put Louie away but does not know about his present whereabouts. Returning to his seat, Tom finds Louie seated one row behind. Seated next to Tom is actress Lili DAllio Rita Corday; and, when she leaves to make a bet, Peggy Callahan Barbara Hale, Louies girl friend, takes her spot and accidentally takes Lilis purse. Tom hails a cab, driven by wisecracking Billie Atkins Veda Ann Borg, trying to catch up to Peggy who is an actress at the Sunset Studio. Hearing a gunshot, Tom rushes to a deserted sound stage where he finds a corpse; but, by the time the police arrive, the body is missing. After finding the missing body in a prop room, Billie identifies the deceased as leading man Ted Miles, who was married to Roxanna Jean Brooks, the studios costume designer. Bringing autocratic director Alec Hoffman Konstantin Shayne, whom she says we will marry, Roxanna exhibits no emotion when shown her former husbands body. Everything seems to be tied to a current production produced by neurotic studio executive Martin Dwyer John Abbott. Accompanied by Billie, the Falcon pokes around a studio. Suspects are starlet Peggy Callahan, haughty prima donna Lili DAlio or shady businessman Louie Buchanan. Police Inspector McBride Emory Parnell questions Martin Dwyer, who seems to have a rocksolid alibi, until his gun shows up in the model shop, hidden in a plaster head. When he produces proof that his gun was reported as stolen, suspicion falls on Hoffman, who is arrested but gets out on bail. The jinxed film goes back into production, with a scene set at Lilis pool. When a prop gun is mysteriously loaded with live ammunition, Peggy shoots Hoffman at poolside. While McBride questions the crew about the shooting, Tom finds Peggy and Louie conferring in secret, with Louie promising to deliver the killer the next day at the Los Angeles Coliseum. When Louie arrives, he begins to stumble and dies on the steps. Tom finds a poisoned ring, like the one once owned by Dwyer. With the police homing in on him, Dwyer makes a break for the studio soundstage, where he is confronted by Tom and, after a furious gun battle, is shot and apprehended. Tom concludes that Dwyer has sold eight investors a 25 interest in the film. He murdered Ted Miles and Louie Buchanan because they knew too much.