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Bri Fowle
I think that the ending of the book was quite interesting in the fact that it further proves the point that there is a baseline in the detective genre. He figured it out, even though there were many obstacles along the way and he wasn’t even supposed to be figuring out where Rusty Regan went. I also thought it very interesting the parts that the Sternwood daughters played in the end. Carmen asks very innocently at first if he can help her learn to shoot, and then fires point-blank at him and tries to kill him. It’s a good thing he loaded the gun with blanks first. Then we move on to Vivian, who turns out to have an integral part in every part of the story and confesses to everything after he tells her what he thinks happened, with the story revolving around her part. In the process, we also figure out the underlying mystery of Rusty Regan, turns out that Carmen used the same methods as she tried with Marlowe and hid him there. It’s so interesting how in both detective stories we have witnessed, the man obviously figures it out, no matter what, but the woman involved has an integral part in the story and we find out that she was not who we thought she was. She may not have done any of the shooting or killing, but she played the part that set the mystery in motion. The naïve seeming character turns out to be the mastermind.