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56 ـ النوم الأكبر، للمؤلف ريموندشاندلر.

The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first in his acclaimed series about detective Philip Marlowe. The work has been adapted twice into film, once in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles, California.
The story is noted for its complexity, with many characters double-crossing each other and many secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. The title is a euphemism for death; it refers to a rumination in the book about "sleeping the big sleep".
In 1999, the book was voted ninety-sixth of Le Monde's "100 Books of the Century." In 2005, it was included in "TIME's List of the 100 Best Novels."[1]
Plot summary
Private investigator Philip Marlowe is called to the mansion of the elderly General Sternwood, who asks Marlowe to deal with a blackmailer Arthur Gwynn Geiger, apparently a purveyor of rare books. Geiger has presented Sternwood with several promissory notes, signed by Carmen Sternwood, the younger daughter, which purport to be gambling debts. Before Marlowe leaves, Vivian, the General's other daughter, queries Marlowe about the nature of his visit. She is under the impression that he is being hired to look for her third, (and current) husband, Rusty Regan, who disappeared about a month before.
Marlowe visits Geiger's bookshop, where he discovers that the assistant, Agnes, knows nothing about rare books. While he is waiting for Geiger's return, a customer visits the back room of the store and leaves with a book. After following him and taking the book, Marlowe deduces that Geiger loans pornography. Marlowe tails Geiger from Geiger's 'store' to his home and stakes out the home. After some time, he hears gunshots and a woman's scream. He breaks into the house and finds Geiger dead on the floor in front of a camera. Carmen is posing naked and drugged. He takes Carmen home without calling the police. When he returns to the scene, the body has been removed.
The next morning Bernie Ohls, an investigator for the DA, calls to tell Marlowe that the Sternwoods's chauffeur, Owen Taylor, has been found dead in the harbor. He apparently drove off the pier and drowned, but the doctor suspects the cause of death could be a blow to the head.[2] Marlowe visits the bookstore again, and finds that the books are being relocated to the premises of Joe Brody, one of Carmen's lovers whom Sternwood has paid off to leave Carmen. Marlowe returns to his office, where Vivian awaits him. She informs him that an anonymous woman is trying to extort money from her for Carmen's nude photos. Visiting the crime scene a third time, Marlowe finds Carmen looking for the pictures. They are interrupted by Eddie Mars, a gangster who runs a local casino, claiming to be Geiger's landlord.
Marlowe visits Joe Brody, who he believes has the compromising photos of Carmen as Brody is trying to take over all of Geiger's "business concerns", including the blackmail. Carmen arrives with a gun, extremely agitated. She shoots at Brody but misses him. Marlowe confiscates the gun and tells her to go home. Marlowe questions Brody who reveals he found Owen Taylor at the scene of Geiger's murder, and pursued him, knocking him out and retrieving the photographs. Brody is shot by a mysterious caller before he can open the door. Marlowe catches the caller, and recognizes him as the other assistant from Geiger's store. The young man is Carol Lundgren, and Marlowe deduces that he's Geiger's lover who shot Brody, believing him to be Geiger's murderer, and laid Geiger's body out. Marlowe hands Lundgren over to Bernie Ohls at the DA's office.
Marlowe visits the missing persons bureau and discovers that Regan apparently ran away with Mona Mars, Eddie Mars's wife. Eddie Mars calls Marlowe to his club, where Mars tries to bribe him to stop following the case. Marlowe sees Vivian winning a large amount of money in roulette. He deduces that Mars knows something that could be very damaging to the Sternwoods, and is blackmailing her. Marlowe asks Mars about the car following him, and Mars denies knowing about it. When Vivian leaves the casino, Marlowe saves her from an apparent mugging and drives her to the beach, where she tries to seduce him. He refuses her advances and takes her home. When he finally returns home himself, Carmen is in his bed, nude. He throws her out in a rage.
Marlowe's tail turns out to be one Harry Jones, working with Agnes. Jones sells him information that Mars' wife is being held at a secret location by Eddie Mars's hitman, Canino; she is in hiding so that people will not think Eddie Mars killed Regan. Jones agrees to meet Marlowe at his office later that evening to sell Agnes' location for $200. When Marlowe arrives to meet Jones, he overhears Canino attempt to coerce Jones into revealing where Agnes is staying. Jones lies to him and Canino suggests they have a drink to celebrate Jones's common sense. Canino poisons the drink with cyanide which kills Harry. As Marlowe examines Harry's body for a clue as to Agnes's true location, the phone rings and Agnes agrees to meet with him. She gives him Mona's location in exchange for the $200.
On the way to the location, Marlowe runs over tacks and gets two flat tires. Marlowe describes this as "fateful" as it gives him an excuse to get into the repair shop where Mona is hiding. He recognizes Canino, who is in the shop with the mechanic and who does not initially recognize Marlowe. The mechanic knocks Marlowe unconscious. He comes to in the house where Mona is staying, handcuffed and tied up. He confronts her about her husband murdering Regan, and she frees him, although they cannot remove his handcuffs.
Canino comes back and a gunfight ensues. Canino is killed and Marlowe goes to the police, who do not press charges. Marlowe visits General Sternwood the next day, who is initially upset that Marlowe tried to find Rusty Regan, which he had not been asked to do. On the way out, Marlowe returns the gun to Carmen and she asks Marlowe to teach her how to shoot. Carmen leads Marlowe to an abandoned oil field owned by the Sternwoods. He sets up a can on a tire for target practice. As he walks back to her, Carmen shoots at him in a rage; Marlowe is unharmed as he loaded the gun with blanks. Carmen then has an epileptic fit. Marlowe returns Carmen to the house and tells Vivian his theory that Carmen killed Regan. Marlowe figures that Regan had refused Carmen's advances, just as he did, and Carmen killed him. She asked him to teach her how to shoot, and she killed him. Vivian admits that Carmen shot Regan and Vivian asked Eddie Mars to cover it up, but then he blackmailed her. Marlowe promises not to go the police if Carmen is institutionalized. The book ends with Marlowe ruminating on his adventures and the grim, sordid human comedy he has been thrust into.