The Big Sleep racketeering; Al Capone and Meyer Lansky were not role models. A figure like A. G. Geiger, the dirty-books racketeer in Raymond Chandler's "Big Sleep" (1939) who supplements his business activities as owner of a pornographic lending library in Hollywood by arranging sex orgies and blackmailing rich customers, is a fascinating but lurid exaggeration. However susceptible film personalities were to blackmail, it was not the métier of book dealers." The Big Sleep The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946
The Book of the War other parallels with "Doctor Who" characters and concepts can be found, but these links are not explicit. No familiarity with "Doctor Who" is required to appreciate "The Book of the War". Characters and settings from "The Book of the War" appear in later "Faction Paradox" novels including "Of the City of the Saved...", "Warring States" and "Newtons Sleep", and the short story anthology "A Romance in Twelve Parts". The otherwise unrelated novel "Dictionary of the Khazars" is a rare example of similar use of a non-linear encyclopedic structure for a work of fiction. The Book of the War The Book