Robert B. Parker: Perchance to Dream (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
"What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on a top of a high hill. You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep..."

Raymond Chandler wrote those immortal words on the final page of his first Marlowe thriller in 1939. Today, The Big Sleep is considered the all-time masterpiece of hard-boiled suspense. Now detective Philip Marlowe has returned -- in this electrifying sequel by Chandler's acclaimed successor, Robert B. Parker, author of the bestselling Spenser mysteries...

Robert B. Parker: Perchance to Dream. Berkley Publishing, ISBN: 0425131319 (December, 1993), 277 p., $6.99.