![]() All they did was make me think of Silver Wig, and I never saw her again. On the way downtown I stopped at a bar and had a couple of double Scotches. And in a little while he too, like Rusty Regan, would be sleeping the big sleep. He could lie quiet in his canopied bed, with his bloodless hands folded on the sheet, waiting. Author: chandler raymond, Title: adios muñeca. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was. Adiós, Muñeca by Chandler, Raymond and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. ![]() ![]() I got into my car and drove off down the hill. Outside, the bright gardens had a haunted look, as though small wild eyes were watching me from behind the bushes, as though the sunshine itself had a mysterious something in its light. Basada en la novela de Raymond Chandler, publicada en 1940, Adiós muñeca es una buena mezcla entre el cine policíaco y la comedia que toma como protagonista a un investigador, el detective Marlowe, que da bandazos entre la seriedad, el deber y el humor. I went quickly away from her down the room and out and down the tiled staircase to the front hall. ![]()
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