Comprehensive Quizlet on Chandler's 'The Big Sleep' Chapters 9-22

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Lead investigator for the District Attorney

Bernie Ohls

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Location of one of the Sternwood's cars

the Pacific Ocean

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Who does Marlowe think is inside the car?

Rusty Regan's dead body

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Who is really inside the car?

the Sternwoods' chauffeur, Owen Taylor

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Owen's position with the Sternwood family

He is their chauffeur

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What does Marlowe ************* selling?

porn

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What is the man doing in the back room?

Moving the porn stock out

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What does Marlowe follow in this chapter?

A small black truck with the stock in it

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Where does the truck go?

The garage of an apartment building

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Name on the mailbox

Joseph brody

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What does Vivian show Marlowe?

A letter set to her with photos of naked carmen (a blackmail letter) demanding 5k for the rest of the pictures.

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How much did the woman demand for the negative?

5000

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Which character could land in prison?

Vivian

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What was Vivian doing when Owen died?

At the eddie mars cypress club

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Which character has run off with Eddie Mars' wife?

Rusty regan

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Who does Marlowe find at Geiger's house?

Carmen sternwood

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Who does Carmen say killed Geiger?

Joeseph joe brody

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Who enters Geiger's house at the end of the chapter?

eddie

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How many men does Eddie have in his car?

2

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Where does Eddie find a patch of blood?

The floor

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Who owns Geiger's house?

Eddie mars

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What does Marlowe accuse Eddie of protecting?

Geiger in the pron buisness.

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What does Mars order his men to do?

Frisk/ check marlowe for weapons

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What is the only information Mars wants to know?

he wants to know what has happened to Geiger

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What do Mars' men take from Marlowe?

Detective liscense

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Whose apartment does Marlowe visit in this chapter?

Joe Brody's

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What does Brody have?

Geiger's books, and a gun

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What does Marlowe have?

The list of his and geigers customers

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Who does Marlowe say would have no problem killing Brody?

Him?

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Where is the woman hiding?

Apartment 405

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What is the name of the woman behind the curtain?

Anges

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What does Brody give Agnes?

A gun

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What does Carmen demand from Brody?

Her pictures

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How many guns does Marlowe have at the end of the chapter?

4

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What does Marlowe demand from Brody?

The prints (pictures) and negatives (pictures/ photos)

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What does Marlowe tell Brody he can frame him for?

idk?

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What kind of car does Brody say he saw outside of Geiger's house?

Vivians bewic

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Marlowe takes Brody's killer

Geiger's house

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The Kid does not have

The key to Geiger's house

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Marlowe insists the Kid has a key

He was Geiger's lover

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Marlowe finds Geiger's dead body

In the bed of a room

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Geiger's dead body is surrounded by

Chinese silk and candles and incense

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Marlowe calls in this chapter

Ohls

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Who walks up the drive while Marlowe is on the phone

Unknown

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The Kid is linked to Geiger

His lover

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Marlowe has to prove the Kid killed Brody

Coded book of records and a porn book from Geiger's store

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Taggart Wilde

District attorney Wilde is an old friend of General Sternwood's

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Who else is with Taggart

Captain Cronjager

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Cronjager is not happy with Marlowe

Because he perceives Marlowe's involvement in the case as a distraction from the police's duties

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Marlowe leaves out whose visit from his story

Carmen Sternwood

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Marlowe says he was trying to protect

General Sternwood

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How many people are waiting for Marlowe

Two thugs

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Who phones Marlowe in this chapter

Eddie Mars

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Who does Marlowe call in this chapter

The Sternwood house (the butler)

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Who does Marlowe talk to at the Sternwoods' house

The butler to pass a message onto Vivian

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What does Marlowe report to the butler

He has the photos of Carmen and everything is alright

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What does Marlowe do after making his phone calls

Read the newspaper accounts of Geiger's murder

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How many newspapers does Marlowe read the following morning

Three

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Where does Captain Gregory work

The missing persons bureau

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Who is Marlowe looking for

Rusty Regan

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What kind of car is tailing Marlowe

Plymouth sedan

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What color is the Plymouth

Gray

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Which character was Rusty married to

Mrs. Regan, the eldest daughter of General Sternwood, Vivian

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What does Marlowe phone the General to tell him

He received a check for 500 dollars and to consider the case closed

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What does Marlowe say he will destroy

The possibility that Eddie Mars was Regan's assassin

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Who does Marlowe set up a meeting with

Eddie Mars

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Where is Vivian in this chapter

Out gambling in Eddie's casino

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How much does Vivian want to place on the roulette table

Like 6000. She's a high bettor

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What does Vivian put all her winnings on

Roulette

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What does the man in the mask take from Vivian

The money she just won from the roulette table