The Big Sleep

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood to resolve a series of debts his daughter Carmen owes to bookseller Arthur Geiger. As Marlowe delves deeper into the case, he uncovers blackmail, deception, and murder, including the mysterious death of Geiger's body, which disappears shortly after its discovery. Vivian Sternwood Rutledge, General Sternwood's older daughter, becomes a crucial figure in the investigation, as does Carmen, who is accused of killing her sister's former lover, Sean Regan, a man General Sternwood had been training as a soldier.