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Perchance to Dream

By: Robert B. Parker
Narrated by: Elliott Gould
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The Sternwood family, immortalized in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, is in trouble again.

Lovely Vivian's psychotic sister, Carmen, has disappeared from the sanitarium, and Vivian herself has once again fallen into the clutches of the shady underworld character Eddie Mars. Enter Philip Marlowe, the original tough-but-tender private eye. He saved the Sternwoods once before. The question is: Can he do it again?

©2005 Robert B. Parker (P)2005 Phoenix Books, Inc. Crime Fiction Modern Detectives Mystery Private Investigators

Critic reviews

"Parker's effort goes beyond pastiche: he uses flashbacks from The Big Sleep daringly and seamlessly, and his terse style (a cop asks for the time of death: 'Any idea when yet?') is flawlessly in Chandler's footsteps. This is dazzling." (Publishers Weekly)
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loved it. prefer ray porter narration but yeah. book should have been added onto the end of the big sleep.

Great stuff. classic Marlowe.

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I really enjoyed this as a follow on from The Big Sleep, but the narration is above the worst I've ever heard, only slightly better than an AI news clip on YouTube. Please re-record with someone, anyone, who can read and speak at the same time!

Good story but terrible narration

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