Twenty Years After Dumas comes out on the side of the monarchy in general, or at least the text often praises the "idea" of benevolent royalty. His musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers. The action begins during the regency of Queen Anne of Austria (term 1643–1651), with Cardinal Mazarin as First Minister. D'Artagnan, who seemed to have a promising career ahead of him at the end of "The Three Musketeers", has for twenty years remained a lieutenant, and seems unlikely to progress despite his ambition and the debt
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