The big sleep

The big sleep is a 1939 published in hard-boiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler. It is the first novel in which Chandler boosts the character Philip Marlowe .The book was made into a film twice: first as the film noir The Big Sleep (1946), followed by the remake The Big Sleep (1978). The novel is listed on Le Mondes 100 books of the century. In 1973 appeared at thePublishing House Bruna a translation of j. van Woensel under the title The great sleep, now out of print. ==Summary[ Edit] == The story takes place in Los Angeles and is remarkable for its complexity, with much intrigue and unexpected twists and turns.

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by General Sternwood, a rich, paralyzed man who wants his help because he tells Marlowe that his daughter Carmen is blackmailed by Arthur Gwynn Geiger, a bookseller.Marlowe accepts the assignment. Before his departure, he is stopped by Vivian, the second daughter of General. She thinks he was hired to be her husband Rusty Regan, who disappeared without a trace, to find back the previous month. Marlowe goes to Geigers bookstore and found that a lending thing for pornographic books. Marlowe encourages Geiger on. it's a rainy night and he follows with his car the man to his home. He sees that also Carmen Sternwood is inside. Suddenly there is a Flash (a camera), followed by a scream of Carmen. Marlowe is approaching Geigers home to see what happened, and there heard three gunshots, followed by the rapid footsteps of the escaping gunman. Inside he finds Carmen. She is drugged and naked on a Chair in front of a camera at her feet, with the corpse of Geiger who took pictures of her.The film, however, is taken from the camera. Marlowe brings the girl to her home, but when he returns, Geigers body is gone. The next day the police let him know that the Sternwoods car was found, of a pier in the ocean driven, with the corpse of the chauffeur Owen Taylor still in it. The police also asked whether Marlowe is looking for Regan. Marlowe then continues with his research, that will be very complex.

As the story unfolds, Marlowe starts figure out that Taylor was in love with Carmen Sternwood, and that Taylor was that Geiger had been killed in retaliation for the compromising pictures that Geiger of Carmen had taken. Also another figure, a certain Joe Brody, seems to be something to do with the murder of Geiger, but he, too, will eventually be killed. It turns out that Brody and Agnes Lozelle, an employee of Geiger, had conceived the plan to take over profitable place to Geigers. Brody is also in the possession of the negatives and prints of the scandalous photos of Carmen Sternwood, which he had used to Carmens sister, Vivian, to make money from. As Marlowe tries later information and the photos of his client by Brody to untie is Brody killed by Carol Lundgren, Geiger Geigers homosexual lover, who thought that Brody had killed. Even if the detective eventually batter know the photos, it appears the story about the blackmail to be wrong, and Marlowe continues his research further.