Twenty Years After his own service to Mazarin, he refuses to watch over the Duc de Beaufort, who is imprisoned at the time, and soon learns that, in consequence, he is to be returned to the Bastille, though this does not deter him from speaking highly of the achievements of d'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers. Having determined that d'Artagnan is the man he seeks, Mazarin enters the chambers of the Queen to let her know that he has enlisted the man who had served her so well twenty years earlier. The Queen, feeling guilty for having forgotten d'Artagnan's service, gives Mazarin a diamond
Perchance to Dream (novel) finished by Parker for publication in 1989. They authorized him to write this entirely new sequel to the first Marlowe novel, "The Big Sleep", originally published in 1939. Parker, a longtime fan and student of Chandler's writing, said he took the assignment because "I wanted to see if I could do it". After the publication of "Perchance to Dream", Parker announced that this would be his final Marlowe novel because he did not "want to spend [his] life writing some other guy's books". "Perchance to Dream" is written as a direct sequel to "The Big Sleep", the title of which