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Topic: The Lady in the Morgue


  
  pulpetti: Ten greatest detective novels
Oh, my, was I happy to see The Lady in the Morgue on someone's list.
I've read a lot of Latimer lately, including five of the six books about Bill Crane, and The Lady in the Morgue is the best of them.
It's been several years since I read Lady in the Morgue, but I thought it was only good entertainment, but maybe I should reread it.
pulpetti.blogspot.com /2006/10/ten-greatest-detective-novels.html   (335 words)

  
 The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Their roots (a hideous sight!) were clotted with fragments of the flesh of the scalp --sure token of the prodigious power which had been exerted in uprooting perhaps half a million of hairs at a time.
In passing down an alley in the rear of the Rue Morgue, the fugitive's attention was arrested by a light gleaming from the open window of Madame L'Espanaye's chamber, in the fourth story of her house.
The screams and struggles of the old lady (during which the hair was torn from her head) had the effect of changing the probably pacific purposes of the Ourang-Outang into those of wrath.
www.poestories.com /text.php?file=murders   (13042 words)

  
 John Fraser - Thriller: Quickies
In Lady in the Morgue, there’s a disarming of a “gunsel” that’s a rewriting of the one in The Maltese Falcon.
The cemetery episode and penthouse party in The Lady in the Morgue and the boat sequence in the last three chapters of The Dead Don’t Care are especially fine stretches of narrative.
Crane goes to a movie in Lady in the Morgue and is reminded, out at the cemetery, of the kind of horror movie with mad scientists in it.
www.jottings.ca /john/thriller_quik2.html   (14852 words)

  
 The Look-a-Likes
Ok, lady goes into morgue thinking her husband/boyfriend/live in male partner is dead and sitting in a fridge.
Morgue worker opens up freezer with the Ed look-a-like in it, and she looks in his eyes, and he opens his eyes (as pictured) she gets angry hits him on the head, and storms out.
I think the point of this ad is by playing this game you can pretend you're dead all the time without paying expensive morgue bills, and scaring the crap out of your lady friend.
anitasdailyshowpage.tripod.com /thesouptimenerd/looka.htm   (608 words)

  
 JONATHAN LATIMER, by John Fraser
In Lady in the Morgue, there’s a disarming of a “gunsel” that’s a rewriting of the one in The Maltese Falcon, with more Hammett echoes in Solomon’s Vineyard, written around the time Latimer did an – alas – never filmed screenplay for Red Harvest.
The cemetery episode and penthouse party in The Lady in the Morgue and the in-earnest boat sequence off the Florida Keys in the last three chapters of The Dead Don’t Care are especially fine stretches of narrative.
In The Lady in the Morgue, Crane and O’Malley go to a movie, and while the trio are doing a spot of grave-robbing, Crane is reminded of a horror movie with mad scientists in it.
www.mysteryfile.com /Latimer/Latimer.html   (3867 words)

  
 Morgue Products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1995) KARL MALDEN NEW
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) Karl Malden VHS
Murders in the Rue Morgue / Cry of the Banshee - NEW
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 morgue - OneLook Dictionary Search
Morgue : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include morgue: rue morgue magazine, rue morgue radio, the lady in the morgue
Words similar to morgue: mortuary, dead room, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=morgue&ls=a   (264 words)

  
 Jonathan Latimer
His face had an unhealthy pallor; his fl eyes were set deep in discolored sockets; he was drinking himself to death as fast as he could on a salary of twenty-six dollars a week."
In the 1930s narcotics were associated with the forces of evil but Latimer describes rather lightheartedly in The Lady in the Morgue a group of musicians getting stoned in the back room of a restaurant.
Lady in the Morgue, directed by Otis Garrett, is considered one of the minor treasures of 1938.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /latimer.htm   (1611 words)

  
 Crossing Jordan: Luck Be A Lady - TV.com
When a pair of bodies ends up in the Boston Morgue, one clue will lead to fabulous Las Vegas.
That is because in the Las Vegas/Crossing Jordan world, the "Montecito" is located across the street from the "Mandalay Bay." In the montage, there was a vacant lot across the street (edit)
Tell the world what you think of Luck Be A Lady, write a review for this episode.
www.tv.com /crossing-jordan/luck-be-a-lady/episode/506385/summary.html   (476 words)

  
 The Lady In The Morgue
Dawson leaned over and gave her a quick kiss on the forehead.
Steve Griffen and T.C. McGonigle are here to see you," Rachel said as they finally entered the morgue.
"Would you like to keep a copy of the Rosenberg file overnight?" he asked as the four of them were leaving the morgue.
members.tripod.com /~Amoo282/Lisa/Know09.html   (3022 words)

  
 Illinois Comes of Age
The life of John Doe, accused murderer, and the reputation of Elsa Colby, his lawyer, lie in the balance as she tries to prove his innocence with no help and little cooperation.
The Lady in the Morgue, [by] Jonathan Latimer.
Only The Lady in the Morgue is set in Illinois.
mccoy.lib.siu.edu /illinois/chap4-kl.htm   (5209 words)

  
 MetroActive Movies | Film Picks
Billed with the grindhouser Allotment Wives (1945), in which Kay Francis heads a ring of flmailers who kiss (servicemen) and tell (their wives).
May 12: A triple bill of Lady in the Morgue (1938), The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934) and Black Doll (1937).
Black Doll and Lady in the Morgue are wisecracking detective pictures directed by Otis Garrett with the accent on irony and speed.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sfmetro/05.10.99/film-9917.html   (413 words)

  
 Movie Search Results - Moviefone
My Fair Lady (1964, G) Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Lady Vengeance (2005, R) Lee Yeong-ae, Kim Shi-hu, Nam Il-woo
Our Lady of the Assassins (2000, R) The Bullfighter and the Lady (1950)
movies.aol.com /search/encyresults.adp?query=Lady   (173 words)

  
 Rue Morgue: New Issue
Rue Morgue examines how the Expressionist films of the 1920’s influenced how we identify the look and style of horror.
The Rue Morgue Sick Top Six Instances of Killer Canines.
Rue Morgue and Lionsgate want you to face your deepest fear!
www.rue-morgue.com /newissue.php   (488 words)

  
 89.04.08: Mystery and Detective Fiction: Comparison and Contrast
Edgar Allan Poe is fairly universally accepted as having introduced the genre with his tales of ratiocination (the process of exact thinking) in which he constructed plots involving locked rooms (Murder in the Rue Morgue,) cryptograms (The Gold Bug,) logic (The Mystery of Marie Roget,) and even a series detective, Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin.
Steve Carella’s love affair with Teddy, a deaf/mute, culminates with their marriage in Cop Hater and their twins are born in Killer’s Wedge.
An unusually sharp contrast in tone can be discerned by any reading level-student if the teacher offers Jonathan Latimer’s The Lady in the Morgue and James McClure’s The Steam Pig.
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1989/4/89.04.08.x.html   (5830 words)

  
 Register of Jonathan Latimer, Miscellaneous Scripts and Screenplays - MSS 0133
His first novel, Murder in a Madhouse, became a 1935 best-seller and introduced Bill Crane, the hard-drinking detective and hero of five of Latimer's novels.
After serving in the U.S. Navy between 1942 and 1945, Latimer became a successful Hollywood screenwriter, producing scripts for such movies as "Lady in the Morgue," "Topper Returns," and the "Glass Key," as well as ten films directed by John Farrow.
Latimer later wrote television scripts for forty-five episodes of the "Perry Mason" show, 1960-1965.
orpheus.ucsd.edu /speccoll/testing/html/mss0133a.html   (399 words)

  
 Detective Book List
Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926
Jonathan Latimer, The Lady in the Morgue, 1937
Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake, 1944
www.cs.toronto.edu /~yzhang/booklist.htm   (198 words)

  
 OL' SCAR BUTT - PearlSoup.com
THE ADVERTISEMENT SHOWED A LADY IN A MORGUE IDENTIFYING HER DEAD HUSBAND.
SHE HAD THIS CELL PHONE WITH A PICTURE ON IT SHOWING A MAN ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES WITH HIS HEAD STUCK IN A CABINET UNDER A KITCHEN SINK.
THE LADY WAS SAYING TO THE MORGUE ATTENDANT, TURN HIM OVER.
www.pearlsoup.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=pearls.view&pearlID=8111   (402 words)

  
 STANLEY CORTEZ
1938 The Lady in the Morgue/The Case of the Missing Blonde [Otis Garrett] bandw
1950 The Admiral Was a Lady [Albert S. Rogell] bandw
1931 Lady with a Past/Reputation [Edward H. Griffith] co-2nd cam; ph: Hal Mohr
www.cinematographers.nl /GreatDoPh/cortez.htm   (2343 words)

  
 Book Titles M - Q
Murders in the Rue Morgue, The - Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry of Robert Frost, The - Robert Frost
Portrait of a Lady, The - Henry James
www.freeessays.tv /Book-Titles-M-Q.php   (398 words)

  
 Reefer Madness Pulp Fiction Books, & Dime Store Novels etc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Of such was the stuff of the Reefer Madness campaign.
A nude woman found hanging from a bathroom door has no shoes, no name, no friends, and only four dollars.
But someone wants her body enough to kill a morgue attendant to steal it (we've got a dead naked blonde, an alcoholic private detective, a marihuana smoker, a drunken bulldog, and a left-handed undertaker --how could you *possibly* need anything more in a mystery written in 1936?
www.onlinepot.org /reefermadness/pulpfictionbooks.htm   (3351 words)

  
 MoQvo: International. International content, International audio, International video clips, International blogs and ...
BAGHDAD Reuters The Baghdad morgue took in about 16,000 unidentified bodies last year, the bulk of them victims of death squads and other sectarian violence, a source at the morgue told Reuters on Sunday.
BAGHDAD Reuters Around 1,600 bodies were taken to Baghdads morgue in October as insurgent attacks and sectarian violence surged during the holy month of Ramadan, an official at the morgue said on Sunday.
BAGHDAD Reuters A nervous normality returned to Iraqs capital on Sunday after a 24hour curfew imposed after U.S. troops arrested a top politicians bodyguard suspected of a plot to bomb the heavily fortified government compound.
www.moqvo.com /en/articles/international_show_4921.html   (7798 words)

  
 1999 SOLAR ECLIPSE - THE FINAL QUEST FOR THE HOLY GRAIL - NOTES
Galahad is told, "It (the Grail) is given to thee that when thou willist thy soul shall depart from thy body.
Imagine Taliesin and his dark Lady (Morgue-Anna) wielding their wands of silver and gold as they harness the Quintessence of Sun and Moon untied within the eclipse shadow as it strikes land ar Carleon, the Circle of Lions, surrounded by countless knights and damsels who await the Grail King's return."
That moment is called "The Diamond Ring." I saw it in one of Arthur Clark's shows, and that was the term he used.
www.greatdreams.com /eclipse2.htm   (15455 words)

  
 Barbara Pepper Credits | TVGuide.com
My Fair Lady (Actor - Doolittle's Dance Partner)
The Lady In The Morgue (Actor - Kay Renshaw)
The Outcasts Of Poker Flat (Actor - Tavern Lady)
www.tvguide.com /detail/celebrity.aspx?tvobjectid=141199&more=uccelebcredits   (255 words)

  
 Authors and Creators: Jonathan Latimer
In the sixties he moved on to television, and became a major contributor to the Perry Mason series.
The Lady in the Morgue (1935; Bill Crane)
The Search for My Great-Uncle's Head (1937; as Peter Coffin)
www.thrillingdetective.com /trivia/latimer.html   (419 words)

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