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1930s: Although gambling is illegal, many gambling houses exist, and often have police protection. Today: State lotteries are commonplace and many states have legal gambling casinos, many of them operating on Native-American reservations. edition the same year. The novel received brief but favorable reviews in publications in both countries, with reviewers likening Chandler’s work to that of Dashiell Hammett’s, the foremost writer of detective novels in the 1920s and 1930s. The first American printing of 5,000 copies sold out quickly, and a second printing was ordered immediately in both the United States and England.
Ohls is tough, having killed nine men during his career. But he also takes pride in his work and has a degree of integrity. He takes Marlowe to see Owen Taylor’s body and accompanies him to Wilde’s to report the details of Brody and Geiger’s murder and subsequently to report Jones’s and Canino’s deaths. Terence Regan Terence “Rusty” Regan is an Irish immigrant, former bootlegger, and late husband of Vivian Regan. Regan was a good friend of General Sternwood, who would listen to his stories of the time he spent in the Irish Republican Army.
He loved Rusty Regan because Regan told him stories and kept him company, and he hires Marlowe to find him. Norris and the daughters keep the truth of Regan’s death from him. Owen Taylor Taylor was “a slim dark-haired kid” from Dubuque, Iowa who worked as a chauffeur for the Sternwoods. His body is found in a car off the Lido pier and his death is ruled a suicide. Marlowe speculates that Taylor killed Geiger when he found out he was taking nude photographs of Carmen Sternwood, to whom Taylor had once proposed.