It hasn’t the quality or impact of that novel, which many consider to be Chandler’s best, but I think most would consider it better than his final book, Playback. The plot, in which the blonde of the title hires Marlowe to find a man who appears to have risen from the dead, slowly transforms from just a new hardboiled yarn featuring the famous shamus to a cleverly crafted sequel to The Long Goodbye. The new Marlowe novel by John Banville, using his Benjamin Black mystery pseudonym, is pretty darn Chandler-like, complete with smart similes and snappy patter. Since then, several Marlowe projects have been announced-a couple of television pilots here, a novel about “young Philip Marlowe” there-but none has reached the public.
Parker put the finishing touches to Poodle Springs, the Philip Marlowe novel left unfinished by Raymond Chandler’s death, and followed that semi-success with Perchance to Dream, a sequel of sorts to The Big Sleep that, more accurately, might have been titled The Small Snooze.
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