Jürgen Alberts: The Big Sleep of J. B. Cool
The Bremen version of the great Chandler’s Big Sleep. A witty and madcap pastiche of both the book of the film and the film of the book, as it were. ‘How was this clown of a hack basing his novel on my current case? A dirty trick. Shouldn’t he have asked me, at least? Or paid royalties? Or whatever the hell else. I had to get a copyright hit man to load up with lead. In Chandler, old Lüders is called Sternwood, not bad, I wouldn’t have thought of that, got to admit it.’
