He had been rejected by Carmen, killed Carmen's pornographic exploiter, then drove off the pier intentionally.) Suddenly, the doorbell rings and Brody is shot dead Marlowe gives chase and catches Geiger's male lover, who shot Brody thinking he killed Geiger. (In the novel, one investigator suggests that the chauffeur may have committed suicide.
Brody was staking out the house too and pursued the driver, knocked him out, stole the film, and possibly pushed the car off the pier. Marlowe interrogates Brody further and pieces together the story: Geiger was blackmailing Carmen the family driver, Owen Taylor, did not like it and so he snuck in and killed Geiger, then took the film of Carmen. Carmen forces her way in with a gun and demands the photos, but Marlowe takes her gun and makes her leave. Marlowe tells Brody that he knows they are taking over the lending library and blackmailing Carmen with the nude photos. Marlowe goes to Brody's home and finds him with Agnes, the bookstore clerk. Eddie demands to know why Marlowe is there Marlowe takes no notice and states that he is no threat to him. Eddie suddenly enters he says he is Geiger's landlord and is looking for him. They look for the photos, but she plays dumb about the night before. Marlowe revisits Geiger's house and finds Carmen trying to get in. She also mentions gambling at the casino of Eddie Mars and volunteers that Eddie's wife, Mona, ran off with Rusty. Vivian comes to his office and says Carmen is being blackmailed with the nude photos from the previous night. Marlowe stakes out the bookstore and sees its inventory being moved to Brody's home. The police also ask if Marlowe is looking for Regan. It appears that he was hit on the head before the car entered the water. The next day, the police call him and let him know the Sternwoods' car was found driven off a pier, with their chauffeur dead inside. He takes her home but when he returns, Geiger's body is gone. He rushes in to find Geiger dead and Carmen drugged and naked, in front of an empty camera. Later, he hears a scream, followed by gunshots and two cars speeding away. He follows Geiger home, stakes out his house, and sees Carmen enter. He determines that the store is an illegal pornography lending library. Marlowe investigates Geiger's bookstore and meets Agnes, the clerk. On Marlowe's way out, Vivian wonders if he was hired to find Regan, but Marlowe will not say. Sternwood mentions that his other, older daughter Vivian is in a loveless marriage with a man named Rusty Regan, who has disappeared. She had previously been blackmailed by a man named Joe Brody. He wants Marlowe to deal with an attempt by a bookseller named Arthur Geiger to blackmail his wild young daughter, Carmen. Private investigator Philip Marlowe is called to the home of the wealthy and elderly General Sternwood, in the month of October.
In 2005, it was included in Time magazine's " List of the 100 Best Novels". In 1999, the book was voted 96th of Le Monde 's " 100 Books of the Century". The title is a euphemism for death the final pages of the book refer to a rumination about "sleeping the big sleep". The story is noted for its complexity, with characters double-crossing one another and secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946 and again in 1978. The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe.
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