The Lady in the Morgue

by Jonathan Latimer · first published 1936

The Lady in the Morgue (1936) is one of the novels by Jonathan Latimer featuring private detective William Crane. The lady of the title is a female corpse which is stolen from a Chicago morgue before the dead woman's identity can be established. The book is to a large extent a send-up of the hardboiled school of crime writing. Crane is depicted as an ambivalent figure.

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Genre:

Crime fiction

Original language:

English

Year page:

1936