Perchance to Dream (novel) Perchance to Dream (novel) Perchance to Dream is a detective crime novel by Robert B. Parker, written as an authorized sequel to "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. Following his post-mortem collaboration with Chandler on "Poodle Springs", this 1991 release is the second and final Philip Marlowe novel written by Parker. Set a few years after the events of "The Big Sleep", the new novel begins with long passages of text lifted from the original to set the scene, establish the characters, and remind readers of the events of the first book. The story is set in motion by the
Life of Crime (film) critics. Life of Crime (film) Life of Crime is a 2013 American black comedy crime film written and directed by Daniel Schechter, based on Elmore Leonard's novel "The Switch" (1978), which includes characters later revisited in his novel "Rum Punch" (1992), which was adapted into the Quentin Tarantino film "Jackie Brown" (1997). "Life of Crime" was screened on the closing night 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, on the opening day of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, at the 2014 Traverse City Film Festival and released in theaters on August 29, 2014. In Detroit in 1978, stoic socialite Mickey Dawson becomes