“The Big Sleep”

“Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.”

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood´s two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA´s seedy backstreets, Marlowe´s got his work cut out – and that´s before he stumbles over the first corpse…