Perchance to Dream (Philip Marlowe Series) Book

The Ghost of Raymond Chandler:How dare anyone write a sequel to my book,The Big Sleep,Perchance to Dream, not a bad name for my great novel, by the way,and where did I hear that before? This writer who shall remain nameless, doesn't do justice to the king.Come to think of it, I've read a lot worse in my days in Hollywood, as a hack.... Let's say I needed the money for the booze.A guy had to pay the bills. The plot of this fraud is essentially a continuation of my epic.Philip Marlowe gets a call again, to come to the Sternwood house. Carmen has flown the coop,from the funny farm.Norris the butler,and the only normal person in that depressing old mansion, asks Marlowe to find her.Vivian is the older daughter of the late unlamented General Sternwood.Couldn't care less for her wacky sister,she's cute but nuttier than a poet in June.Philip gets his usual beatings by the goons in the City of Angels,for his big nose being where it shouldn't be shining.He's tough, but slow in getting off the dirt.And cops looking the other way.What is it in this book, always raining, in L.A.?It's a desert, brown everywhere.But it makes for good colorful writing, for those with talent.Dr.Claude Bonsentir the quack head of the nuthouse...sanitarium, isn't very helpful. Bonsentir is a bit of a pimp for a man named Simpson,who has more money than God.Simpson a sadist, likes to have fun with crazy women.I'LL SAY NO MORE, EVEN I HAVE LIMITS. Water rights , buying cheap land in the desert , meeting thugs at every corner, never very friendly, a couple of murders to add to the stew.Corruption by the establishment all around.The story is filled with those type of scum,maybe that's why all the rain keeps falling down,The City needs to be cleansed every day. P.S. I kind of enjoyed the novel as a tribute to me, anyhow does anyone out there have a drink? It gets very thirsty here.