The late Robert B. Parker wrote some of my favorite mystery titles. Perchance to Dream is the sequel to Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep. The novel is interspersed with the scenes from The Big Sleep as Philip Marlowe remembers what happened during that case.
Perchance to Dream takes place a few years after The Big Sleep. Marlowe is called back to the Sternwood mansion by the butler, Norris. He hires Marlowe to find Carmen, who has disappeared from her institution. No one knows where she is, Vivian, her sister, asks Marlowe to stay away. She’s sent her less than desirable boy friend Eddie Mars to find Carmen.
The story is a little thick at first, moving slowly between scenes from Sleep. However the book picks up and I found it enjoyable.
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