Kurota kusingaperi
Kurara Kukuru (1939), chinyorwa chekutanga chaChandler, Philip Marlowe anotora nyaya inovimbisa kuve nyore. General Sternwood, mutana, akaremara uye akapfuma zvakanyanya, agamuchira tsamba yekunyepedzera maererano nemwanasikana wake mudiki, wemusango Carmen.
Sternwood anofungidzira Arthur Geiger, mutengesi wemabhuku wepano, uye anokumbira Marlowe kuti amuferefete zvakare. Nekudaro, Vivian Sternwood, mwanasikana mukuru waGeneral, anofungidzira kuti mutikitivha akahaiwa kuti atsvage murume wake, Rusty Regan, uyo achangoshaika.
Marlowe achakurumidza kuona kuti rairatidzika sebasa remazuva ese inyaya yerabyrinthine yezvinonyadzisira uye kuponda umo hanzvadzi dzeSternwood dzichaita dhiyabhorosi.
Mamiriro ezvinhu: Los Angeles, guta duku, riri kwaro roga rine mutemo wetsika unopokana uye dhipatimendi remapurisa rine uori; Migwagwa Marlowe anotsika kubva kuhofisi yake padyo nedecadent Sunset Boulevard kuenda kudzimba huru kumusoro kwedhorobha.
Kubva pasi penyika yeSanta Monica inenge isipo kusvika kumakoni erenje akakomberedza guta. Hunhu hwake ane mukurumbira, Philip Marlowe, mutikitivha wemashoko mashoma uye akadzama kufungisisa anochembera kuburikidza nemanovhero maanoita nyeredzi.
Marlowe munhu anonyara, ane chipo chemuviri, anozvivimba, anopesana negamba, uye muenzaniso wemabhuku nemafirimu emuzana remakore rechi20. Mabhuku ake anoratidza nzanga ine urombo, chisimba, uye isina kuvimbika ichiri kurwisana nemhedzisiro yeGreat Depression. Unogonawo kunakidzwa neContemporary Literature.

Kushanyira guta kubva kuhofisi yake muHollywood
Kupokana
General Sternwood vanohaya Detective Philip Marlowe kuti vamusunungure kubva mukuyedza kwemumwe Geiger, anoshandisa zvikwereti zvekubhejera zvemwanasikana wake mudiki, Carmen. Mwanasikana mukuru wemukuru, Vivian, anofarira kuziva kuti mutikitivha anofarira sei Rusty Regan, aimbove murume wake, uyo ari kutiza nemukadzi wegororo renzvimbo.
Geiger paanopfurwa akafa mumba make, Carmen anowanikwa ari panzvimbo yemhosva asi asina kupfeka uye aine zvinodhaka, uye panguva iyoyo mutikitivha anenge atoziva kuti kuferefetwa kuchangotanga.
Kuoma kwenyaya yacho kwakabatana nevatambi, avo vanotiratidza hunhu hushoma hwetsika nehunhu husina kunaka. Nhoroondo nemagariro evanhu zvebasa iri, pamwe nemisoro inopindirana mumabhuku emazuva ano, chimwe chezvinhu zvinoita kuti The Big Sleep ive chiitiko chinopa pundutso.
Detective Marlowe, mukutsvaga kwake chokwadi asinganeti, anofamba mumvura ine rima yenyika umo kutaridzika kuri kunyengera uye njodzi inovanda kumativi ese. Kusagadzikana kwechinangwa chake kunomutungamira kuti ayambuke nzira dzinosangana naye nemadhimoni evamwe pamwe neakewo.
Maonerwo akaitwa Carmen naVivian Sternwood anowedzera kuomarara kurondedzero, achiratidza kurwira simba mukati menzvimbo umo zvemidzimu ndizvo zvinogara zvichiitwa, zvichiita kuti muverengi afungisise nezvehukama hwevakadzi nekumiririrwa kwevakadzi mumabhuku matsva.