Big Sleep: questions and answers.

THE BIG SLEEP (Up to chapter 7)

1. Why did the general ask Marlowe to work for him?
   He wanted Marlowe to take Geiger off his back.
2. Marlowe used to work for the District Attorney. Why was Marlowe fired?
   He didn't like taking orders from other people. He liked to be his own boss.
3. Did the general like Rusty Reagan, Vivian’s husband? Why?
   Yes, he liked him a lot because he was great fun. Besides nobody dared to blackmail him when Rusty was there.
4. Why did the general pay five thousand dollars to Joe Brody?
   He was blackmailing Carmen
5. What did Carmen promise Mr Geiger, the bookshop owner?
   She had promised to pay him a big amount of money
6. What was Carmen’s most characteristic gesture?
7. Why didn’t the general ask Carmen about the blackmailing?
   He thought it would be no use.
8. Why did Vivian want to see Marlowe?
   She wanted to discover the reason for his visit to her father and also she thought it could have to do with the disappearance of her husband.
9. What happened to Rusty Regan?
   He disappeared without saying goodbye but his car was found.
   Vivian told Marlowe that her husband had run off with the wife of a dangerous gansgter, Eddy Mars.
10. What was strange about the girl in Mr Geiger's bookshop?
    She knew nothing about books.
11. How did Marlowe discover that Geiger's bookshop was a pornography business?
    He followed a guy from there. The man was carying a parcel which he hid. Marlowe found it and discovered it was full of dirty photographs.
12. Marlowe was outside Geiger's house. What did he hear? What did he do?
    He heard a terrible scream and some shots. Then he entered the house through the window.
13. What was Carmen wearing when Marlowe found her?
    Nothing but a pair of earrings
14. What had happened to Geiger?
    He had been killed
15. How did they drug Carmen?
    They used ether.
16. What did Marlowe put into his pocket? Why was it important?
    A notebook ful of names and addresses, maybe Geiger's victims
17. Why did Bernie, the District Attorney chief investigator, ring Marlowe?
    Bernie told him they had found a body inside a car underwater. He tried to get some information from Marlowe
18. How did Owen Taylor die?
    His body was found underwater inside Vivian's car. Somebody had hit him on the head previously, so it was murder.
19. Who ran after Owen and Carmen when they had tried to run off together?
    Vivian, Carmen's sister, ran after them and they had to come back
20. Where did they take the books in Geiger's bookshop to?
    They were taken to Brody's apartment.
21. How is Vivian going to get the five thousand dollar they demanded for Carmen's photos in Geiger's house?
    Eddie Mars will give her the money.
22. Who killed Geiger according to Carmen?
    Carmen said that she had seen Brody killing Geiger. She told Brody she wanted her pictures back. Marlowe got them in the end.
23. According to Marlowe, why did Owen Taylor shoot Geiger?
    In Marlowe's opinion Owen was in love with Carmen and he didn't like what Geiger was doing to her.
24. How did Brody get Carmen's photos?
    Brody got Carmen's pictures from Owen Taylor who had got them from Geiger.
25. Why did Carol kill Brody?
    Carol, a boy from Geiger's store, thought Brody had killed his friend Geiger.