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
The Long Goodbye (novel) Long Good Friday" (1980), an episode of "" entitled "The Big Goodbye" (1988), and Frank Miller's graphic novel "The Hard Goodbye" (1991–92), the first volume in the "Sin City" series. In music, crime novelist Matt Rees's band Poisonville, which is named after the fictitious location of the Dashiell Hammett novel "Red Harvest", released a song about "The Long Goodbye" on its first album. Rees described the novel as "a creepier book than people think." The Long Goodbye (novel) The Long Goodbye is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1953, his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. Some