The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe Series Book 1)
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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Let me start by saying this particular version, I notice, is not available. That is good because this is the worst kindle conversion I have seen yet In the entire book when a word has the letters "cl" a "d" is used, therefore close becomes dose and clear becomes dear in the ENTIRE book. Periods appear in the middle of a sentence, sometimes in the middle of a word. Numbers sometimes appear in place of letters.
The last ten chapters have a misspelled word on nearly every page. Now, about the story. This is the best Phillip Marlowe I have read to date. I scored the story a 5 star, not the typing, as that is not the author's fault. In this book Marlowe is involved in a short case that comes to a quick close and then starts another case.
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You just know the two have to be connected, or they wouldn't both be in the book, but you can't figure out how, but they do. And the end of the book has an unexpected twist. You seem to suspect this twist, but the closer you get to the end it seems unlikely, but it still ambushes you, I highly recommend. Wish I was as cool as Philip Marlow. A great s detective novel. It was made into a fine movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
Just a few questions to be answered within the story: Where is Eddie Mars' wife? What happened to Sean Regan? Why is Gwyn Geiger blackmailing the Sternwoods? Why is Harry Jones following Philip Marlow?
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What did General Sternwood hire Marlow to do? What was going on at Lavern Terrace the night Gwyn Geiger was was murdered? Was it the Sternwoods' chauffeur? How did the the Sternwoods' chauffeur wind up dead in the big black Packard under 30 feet of water off Lido pier? Who moved Geiger's body? Why does she turn up nude in his bed later on? Read the book to find out the answer to these questions and a whole lot more.
There was a problem laid out on the board, a six-mover. I couldn't solve it, like a lot of my problems. I reached down and moved a knight, then pulled my hat and coat off and threw them somewhere I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. He had also hidden Geiger's body, so he could remove his own belongings before the police got wind of the murder. The case is over, but Marlowe is nagged by Regan's disappearance.
The police accept that he simply ran off with Mona Mars, since she is also missing, and since Eddie Mars wouldn't risk committing a murder in which he would be the obvious suspect. Mars calls Marlowe to his casino and seems to be nonchalant about everything. Vivian is also there, and Marlowe senses something between her and Mars. He drives her home and she tries to seduce him, but he rejects her advances. When he gets home, he finds Carmen has snuck into his bed, and he rejects her, too. A man named Harry Jones, who is Agnes's new partner, approaches Marlowe and offers to sell him the location of Mona Mars.
Marlowe plans to meet him later, but Mars's henchman Canino is suspicious of Jones and Agnes's intentions and kills Jones first. Marlowe manages to meet Agnes anyway and receives the information. He goes to the location in Realito, a repair shop with a home in back, but Canino, with the help of Art Huck, the garage man, jumps him and knocks him out. When he awakens, he is tied up, and Mona Mars is there with him. She says she hasn't seen Rusty in months; she only hid out to help Eddie and insists he didn't kill Rusty.
She frees him, and he shoots and kills Canino.
I looked down at the chessboard. He determines the store is a pornography lending library. O'Mara's room is just enough to establish the setting: I stock noir like air. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee. In The Simple Art of Murder he describes such a man in a famous passage: Jack Noble is part Reach, part Bourne, and all action.
On the way out, Marlowe returns Carmen's gun to her, and she asks him to teach her how to shoot. They go to an abandoned field, where she tries to kill him, but he has loaded the gun with blanks and merely laughs at her; the shock causes Carmen to have an epileptic seizure. Marlowe brings her back and tells Vivian he has guessed the truth: Carmen came on to Rusty and he spurned her, so she killed him. Eddie Mars, who had been backing Geiger, helped Vivian conceal it by first helping to dispose of Rusty's body, inventing a story about his wife running off with Rusty and then blackmailing her himself.
Vivian says she did it to keep it all from her father so he wouldn't despise his own daughters, and promises to have Carmen institutionalised. With the case now over, Marlowe goes to a local bar and orders several double Scotches. While drinking, he begins to think about Mona "Silver-Wig" Mars. He never sees her again. The Big Sleep , like most of Chandler's novels, was written by what he called "cannibalizing" his short stories. For The Big Sleep , the two main stories that form the core of the novel are "Killer in the Rain" published in and "The Curtain" published in Although the stories were independent and shared no characters, they had some similarities that made it logical to combine them.
In both stories there is a powerful father who is distressed by his wayward daughter.
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Chandler merged the two fathers into a new character and did the same for the two daughters, resulting in General Sternwood and his wild daughter Carmen. Chandler also borrowed small parts of two other stories, "Finger Man" and "Mandarin's Jade".
As might be expected, all this cannibalising—especially in a time when cutting and pasting was done by cutting and pasting paper—sometimes produced a plot with a few loose ends. The famously unanswered question in The Big Sleep is who killed the chauffeur. When Howard Hawks filmed the novel , his writing team was perplexed by that question, in response to which Chandler replied that he had no idea. To Chandler, plot was less important than atmosphere and characterisation. An ending that answered every question while neatly tying every plot thread mattered less to Chandler than interesting characters with believable behaviour.
When Chandler merged his stories into a novel, he spent more effort on expanding descriptions of people, places, and Marlowe's thinking than getting every detail of the plot perfectly consistent. In "The Curtain", the description of Mrs. O'Mara's room is just enough to establish the setting: Ivory drapes of immense height lay tumbled casually on the white carpet inside the many windows. The windows stared towards the dark foot-hills, and the air beyond the glass was dark too. It hadn't started to rain yet, there was a feeling of pressure in the atmosphere.
O'Mara in the original story is covering up the murder of her husband by her sister and that the coming rainstorm will bring more deaths: There were full-length mirrors and crystal doodads all over the place. The ivory furniture had chromium on it, and the enormous ivory drapes lay tumbled on the white carpet a yard from the windows.
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The white made the ivory look dirty and the ivory made the white look bled out. The windows stared towards the darkening foothills. It was going to rain soon. There was pressure in the air already. But the criminality of erotica dealers did not extend beyond bookselling into organized racketeering; Al Capone and Meyer Lansky were not role models. A figure like A. Geiger, the dirty-books racketeer in Raymond Chandler's Big Sleep who supplements his business activities as owner of a pornographic lending library in Hollywood by arranging sex orgies and blackmailing rich customers, is a fascinating but lurid exaggeration.
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