With each lead he follows, Marlowe encounters lies, larceny, perjury, theft and a beautiful femme fatale ( Claire Trevor ).

Marlowe follows Geiger to his house and hears a gunshot and a woman scream.

Marlowe follows a car leaving the bookstore to the apartment of Joe Brody ( Louis Jean Heydt ), a gambler who previously blackmailed General Sternwood.

Marlowe follows and apprehends Carol Lundgren, Geiger's former driver, who has killed Brody in revenge for Geiger's death.

On Marlowe's way out, Vivian wonders if he was hired to find Regan, but Marlowe won ’ t say.

Vivian is also there, and Marlowe senses something between her and Mars.

Marlowe brings her back and tells Vivian he has guessed the truth: Carmen came on to Rusty and he refused her, so she killed him.

As Marlowe is leaving, General Sternwood's older daughter, Mrs. Vivian Rutledge ( Lauren Bacall ), stops him.

Marlowe takes the photos and sends Vivian and Carmen home.

Mars is evasive and tells Marlowe that Vivian is running up debts in his casino.

Vivian later tells Marlowe she wants him to take her home.

While Marlowe waits for her, a stooge of Mars ' attempts to rob Vivian.

While driving home, Marlowe unsuccessfully presses Vivian on her connection with Mars, telling her he knew the money she won and subsequent robbery was a setup by Mars and her to try to show Mars and Vivian had animosity toward each other.

In the morning, Vivian calls Marlowe to say that Regan has been found in Mexico, and that she is going to see him.

After Vivian helps distract him, Marlowe kills Canino and they leave together.

Marlowe reveals to him that he has discerned the truth: Mars blackmailed Vivian, saying Carmen had killed Regan.

Marlowe stakes out the bookstore and sees its inventory being moved to Joe Brody ’ s home.

She attempts to seduce Marlowe, who throws her out of his apartment.

Marlowe starts with Orrin's last known address, a seedy apartment building in Bay City.

As Marlowe leaves the apartment building he notices the supervisor, now lying unconscious.

Marlowe goes to Ms. Weld's apartment.

In a society where everything is for sale, Marlowe is the only man who cannot be bought.

While travelling in Europe he prepared a thesis entitled John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, which won him a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, helped found the Marlowe Society drama club and acted in plays including the Cambridge Greek Play.

* Also inspired by the same Marlowe quotation is " If a face could launch a thousand ships, then where am I to go?

In The Big Sleep where the story occurs in 1936, he makes him 33, while in The Long Goodbye ( set fourteen years later ) Marlowe is 42.

Marlowe is highlighted in the " Mystery Library " section ( usually the last page ) where Aoyoma introduces a different detective ( or occasionally villain ) from mystery literature, television, or other media.

Marlowe finds it increasingly difficult to tell where civilization ends and where barbarism begins.

Among other things the series asserts that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was a secret illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I ; that Sir Francis Walsingham, the Queen's spymaster, did not die in 1590 as history records but lived in secret for another five years ; that playwrights Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were all secret agents of the Queen and underwent dangerous missions in her service, in addition to their theatrical activities ; that the plays of all three had profound secret political and magical meanings ; that Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene was not a fictional work but was based on a true Kingdom of Faerie, whose Queen had a secret pact of mutual help with the English Queen Elizabeth ; that Christopher Marlowe was not assassinated in 1593 as history records but was taken into Faerie where he became the lover of the witch Morgan le Fay ; and that Shakespeare had also visited Faerie and personally met with Puck and other supposedly legendary characters depicted in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Marlowe wakes up in jail, where he is questioned by Captain Kane ( Tom Tully ) and a very belligerent Lieutenant DeGarmot ( Lloyd Nolan ).

It began as a one-act play which was first produced on 12 February 1962 at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, England, where it received good local notices.

It was translated into English in 1587, where it came to the attention of Christopher Marlowe.

When Marlowe accidentally injures his arm, King obtains expensive medicines to save the gangrenous limb from amputation, but it is unclear whether he does so out of genuine friendship or because Marlowe is the only one who knows where the proceeds from King's latest and most profitable venture are hidden.

He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was involved in the Footlights and the Marlowe Society.

Marlowe traces Mayfield to the small coastal resort town of Esmeralda in California, where he is given the runaround by practically everyone.

Marlowe returns to Geiger's house where he finds Carmen.

Marlowe visits Mars ' casino, where he asks about Regan, who is supposed to have run off with Mars ' wife.

Marlowe then meets Agnes himself, after she telephones the office where Jones was killed.

When Mars threatens Marlowe with his men outside, Marlowe begins to fire his gun near Mars, causing him to run outside where he is mistakenly shot dead by his own men.

This may be due in part to the omission of a long conversation between Marlowe and the Los Angeles District Attorney where facts of the case, thus far, are laid out.

Returning to the crime scene, Marlowe is interrupted by gambler Eddie Mars ( Oliver Reed ), who owns the house where Geiger's body was found.

And one of the most memorable passages in the book is a long soliloquy by Marlowe where he waxes philosophically about the emptiness and shallowness of Los Angeles and its residents.