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 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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