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 Glitch in Sleep of humor, seeming to draw a novel from David Wiesner's Sector 7" "The Glitch in Sleep" was nominated for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, a Vermont children’s choice award. It was also chosen as one on Amazon's Best Books of 2007 along with nine other books and was also named as an Autumn Book Sense Children's pick in 2007. "The Glitch in Sleep" was also in Publishers Weekly "BEA 2007: Fall Titles to Watch" list. Film rights to the first book have been acquired by Twentieth Century Fox, but no release has been yet planned. The movie will be directed