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A vanished corpse leads a hard-drinking PI on a madcap chase More than forty corpses fill the cold Chicago basement, but no crime has been committed here. After all, there are supposed to be bodies in the city morgue. Tonight, one is attracting particular attention: a beautiful young woman whose apparent suicide captured the imagination of every newspaper editor in town. Learning how and why she died is too great a task for any cub reporter. Only Detective Bill Crane is up to the job. A few show more minutes after Crane wakes from a nap in the morgue, the mysterious woman's body has disappeared. With the howls of the mental patients as a soundtrack, Crane leads the police on a wild search through the hospital and across Chicago, stopping for a nap or a cocktail whenever the situation demands. It may be a matter of life and death, but that is no reason to rush. show lessTags
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- Original title
- The Lady in the Morgue
- Original publication date
- 1936
- People/Characters
- William Crane
- Important places
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Related movies
- The Lady in the Morgue (1938 | IMDb); The Lady in the Morgue ; Otis Garrett (1938)
- First words
- The morgue attendant jerked the receiver from the telephone, choked off the bell in the middle of a jangling ring.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"I can wash," said Crane.
- Original language
- English US; Inglês
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- Languages
- 7 — Catalan, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 10
- ASINs
- 8
