The big sleep

When i read the novel my interest was on Philip Marlowe. My take on him is he's a detective of honesty. Where he is in a world of corrupt, cynical and betrayal by people. The sense i get he has integrity in his work even he gets paid a lowly $25 dollars a day. Marlowe is willing to do anything to find the truth ; i see him a water down version of a vigilante. The part of the story where he went to the Hollywood public library to look for clues which he did find in a form of a rare book and during a very hard rainy day.