notes on chapters 11 - 17
Marlowe returns to Geiger's house. He quickly realizes Carmen is also there. She has little memory of the night before. Can't recall how, but Marlowe has a key to Geiger's house and lets himself and Carmen inside. She tells him Joe Brody killed Geiger. He then tells her that the photo from that night was gone -- the photo I'm guessing Geiger was taking of her.
Someone new is arriving.
Guy at the door lets himself in and finds Marlowe and Carmen inside. He turns out to be Eddie Mars. Mars is the landlord. He questions Marlowe and why the two of them are there if Geiger is not. questions quickly escalate as Mars pulls out a gun and points it at Marlowe. Mars is highly suspicious of the situation, but Marlowe is able to smooth talk his way out and leaves.
He goes to Joe Brody's place. or the place the kid had followed the trucks with the boxes from a previous chapter... Marlowe throws out a bunch of information to Brody trying to get him to slip on something. He insists Brody killed Geiger to take over his porn rental business. ...Brody has a gun to and it is soon pointed at Marlowe. Marlowe calls out the girl from behind the curtain who turns out to be the girl from Geiger's bookstore... more dots connected... at some point Brody hands Agnes (bookstore girl) the gun.
In comes Carmen Sternwood with a gun pointed at Brody's face demanding the pictures and claiming she saw him shoot Geiger. Sure enough Brody had the photos and gives them to Marlowe.
Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep. First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Edition, 1992.
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