The Big Sleep (novel): Difference between revisions

{{quote|''What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that.''}}

 

 

The convoluted plot follows the investigation by [[Hardboiled Detective]] Philip Marlowe into the gambling debts of young dilettante Carmen Sternwood at the behest of her father, an old, wheelchair-bound millionnaire. However, Carmen's older sister, Vivian Regan, claims that the investigation is really about finding what happened to her husband Sean Regan, who has mysteriously disappeared.