Raymond Chandler Studios. Four chapters of a novel, unfinished at his death, were transformed into a final Philip Marlowe novel, "Poodle Springs", by the mystery writer and Chandler admirer Robert B. Parker, in 1989. Parker shares the authorship with Chandler. Parker subsequently wrote a sequel to "The Big Sleep" entitled "Perchance to Dream", which was salted with quotes from the original novel. Chandler's final Marlowe short story, circa 1957, was entitled "The Pencil". It later provided the basis of an episode of the HBO miniseries (1983–86), "Philip Marlowe, Private Eye", starring Powers Boothe as Marlowe. In 2014, "The Princess and the Pedlar"
Glenn Chandler 2013, he took two productions to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, "Sandel" and "Killers". "Sandel", which he directed, was his controversial adaptation of Angus Stewart's novel of the same name, about a love affair between a student and a choirboy. "Killers" was a study of the correspondence of serial killers Dennis Nilsen, Peter Sutcliffe and Ian Brady, and was directed by Liam Rudden. In 2014, he transferred "Sandel" to the Above The Stag Theatre at its new premises in Vauxhall with a largely new cast. In 2017, Chandler adapted the 1967 novel "Lord Dismiss Us" into a play for the Edinburgh