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Philip Marlowe(33 years old) is a prive detective. He has a agreement with General Sternwood in October. He meets Carmen Sternwood, a daughter of the general, who like him. Then he start talking with the General.
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Philip worked for Mr. Wilde, the district Attorney, as an investigator. Bernie Ohls told Philip that the general want to see him. The general told Philip that he is blackmailed by Joe Brody 9 or 10 months ago. He had to pay 5000 dollars to Joe Brody before Joe let Carmen, the youngest daughter of the general, alone. This time he is blackmailed by Arthur Gwynn Geiger who want a couple of thousand dollars of the general because Carmen has gambling debts. Philip accepts the mission: find Geiger and stop him.
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Vivian invited Philip because she thought that he could find out were Regan is. But Philip says not a much and that make Vivian mad. Vivian sends Philip out the room because she were mad of him. Philip goes to Hollywood public library for a research to old- and rare books. This is for him a good excuse to take a look in Geiger’s shop.
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In Geiger’s store is a beautifully woman, Agnes, who help the customers. Philip asks for the books: Ben Hur (1860) and Chevalier Audubon (1840). But Agnes has neither of this books. Philip asks if she really sells books, but she didn’t gave answer. So Philip lit up a cigarette and wait until Geiger comes. But than a man comes in trough the backdoor and bought a book. Philip followed him but after he throws the book in the bushes Philip stops following him.
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In a drugstore Phone booth Philip finds out that Geiger live don Laverne Terrace, a hillside street off Laurel Canyon Boulevard. In a little bookshop Philip asks a small dark woman for information about Geiger’s. First the woman didn’t want to gave any information about Geiger but finally she described Geiger exactly. After the conversation with the woman Philip goes to his car and looks at the book who the customer has thrown in the bushes. The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate smut.
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Philip bought a bottle of whisky because he had it cold. Around 4 o’clock Geiger comes out the shop and Philip followed him by his own car. Geiger stopped by a house outside the city and goes inside. There were two cars. The car of Geigner and the car of Carmen Sternwood. This had Philip explored through checked the registration card of the car. After a while Philip sees a flash of light, heard a scream and tree shots of a gun. When Philip runs to the house he heard how someone leaves through the backdoor, gets in a car and drove away. In the house he saw 2 people, one was dead and the other lived.
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Carmen, the one who lived, is sitting totally naked on a stool. She is high because she have had some drugs. Geiger, the dead one, is lying dead for some kind of totem pole with a camera in it. The man who run out the house has the film who sat in it. Philip dressed Carmen and he researched the house. He find a notebook in a steel box with a lot of writing in code. He put the notebook in his pocket and he walks away from the house to Alta Brea Crescent.
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Philip brings Carmen home in her own car. Philip said to the butler(Norris): See page 43: as a matter of fact I’m not here. You’re just seeing things. Because nobody may know it. Philip walks back to his car who was by the house of Geiger. He takes a bottle of whisky, smoke a cigarette and checked the house. In the house he cannot find Geiger’s body or any clues. In a apartment he finds out that in the notebook names and addresses were written who were probably of the customers.
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The police agent ,Bernie Ohls, who gave Philip the Sternwood case has called him because the driver of the Sternwoods, Owen Taylor, is found dead in a new Buick sedan in the sea. Ohls and Philip drove to the place were it has happened. Taylor has a strange wound on his had but he dead because his neck is broken. Taylor was in love with Carmen and run away to marry with her but that did not happen. Taylor also had been in prison for 6 month. Ohls drove Philip back to Hollywood. Philip ate lunch and have another look at Geiger’s store.
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In Geiger’s store Philip try to reach the backside of the store but he is stopped through Agnes. Philip says to Agnes he will come back next day. Philip goes out of the shop and walks to the backside of the shop. There he arranged a taxi to follow the truck from Geiger’s store. The truck stopped by the apartment house of Joseph Brody. Truck is loaded with books. When Philip is back a client is waiting for him.
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The client is Vivian Sternwood. She has the envelop with the nude photos of Carmen. A woman telephoned Carmen half an hour after the envelop was delivered. Vivian must pay 5000 dollar to the woman. Last night Vivian was playing roulette at Eddie Mars’s Club. Rusty Regan the husband of Vivian ran away with the blonde wife of Eddie Mars.
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Philip goes to Geiger’s house and find Carmen in the bushes. Philip and Carmen go into the house and talking about what happened to Carmen. Philip says to Carmen that her photos are gone. Carmen told that the men who has killed Geiger is Joe Brody but she wouldn’t say where he lived. Just when Carmen wanted to leave a man comes in.
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