Marlowe meets the sternwoods…….
Eleven o’clock in the morning one day in October, with rain-cloud al over the sky, marlowe was wearing a light blue suit with a dark blue shirt and tie, black socks and shoes. While a young chauffer was cleaning a red sport car, he entered the house; there was a large picture of a grandfather of his employer General Sternwoods. Then a door opened and a girl came out, she didn’t look healthy and had a white face. After a brief exchange of words, she bits her lips and falls to the ground, he catches her. She frequently put her thumb in her mouth like a baby, like a baby. As the butler Norris walked in, he later told Marlowe that the girls name was Carmen Sternwood, daughter of the general. He enters a room full of strange flowers and then he sees the general, an old weak man with heavy dull eyes. The old man orders him brandy. Then tells him that some one is black mailing him again. He gives him an address to a Mr. Geiger’s book store, they talk some more and he leaves, on his way out the butler tell him (Marlowe) that Mrs. Regan wants to see him When he enters the room she on a couch with her shoes off. She thinks that her dad is hiring him to find her Ex-Husband Rusty (a big friend of her father “the general”) She tell him how Rusty left about a month ago.
Mr Geiger’s bookstore………….
The store is on the north part of the boulevard. IN side there where good-comfortable chair and an expensive carpet, a girl was sitting by a desk in one corners, when Marlowe asked for known book she doesn’t know any of them. Then he tell her that he has to speak to Geiger, she tell him that he isn’t in and that he will be back later. He says he can wait and after a while another man walks in, and after a short while he walks away, then he follows the man that sees him, he drops the package behind some trees and leaves, thinking that Marlowe hasn’t seen him, Marlowe then gets the package and opens it its full of pornography.
A dead man disappears………………..
After watching the store for about an hour Mr. Geiger gets back, goes in for an hour then drives home, Marlowe follows him. When he gets to the house he stays out side, after a while he sees that another car arrives, after a while he gets close to the car and then sees that it is the red sport car he had seen before. The he saw a bright flash and a weird scream, and then 3 gun shoots, he tries to push in the door but fails in stead he kicks in a window. Then he finds Carmen all drugged and fucked up all naked. And MR. Geiger shoots dead on the floor with 3 bullets. He find a small notebook full of name on Mr. Geiger body. Then he brings Carmen to her house.
Who killed Owen Taylor?………
The next day there where no news on Geiger’s death in the newspapers. Then he friend Bernie Ohls Called him, he was the one who told him about the general. He said that they had found the Chauffer of the Sternwoods. He was in side a car whit a wound to his head and his neck broken. Ohls tells Marlowe that the boy has had problems with the Law before. Then he went to Geigers Book store. As an door open he could see that men where moving the book out of the store. He got into a taxi and asked the driver to follow them. When he got there he saw that they where carrying the books to Joe Brandy’s Apartment. Then he left, and when he got to his office Mrs. Regan was waiting for him. She explains that a woman called her saying that if she doesn’t pay 5000 dollars she will sell the pictures of her naked sister to a magazine.