The lady in the morgue

by Jonathan Latimer

Book Overview

Set in Chicago, a private-eye masterpiece. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006ATH3A
• Release Date: January 1953
• Publisher: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Hard Boiled Detective, but w/ lots of humor

I read this book in college as part of a course on Detective Fiction. The professor (I believe) offered it along w/ Chandler and Dashiell Hammett as the quintescential anti-hero of the era. What I remember most was that while attempting to solve the case, the shamus seizes every opportunity to "party" for lack of a better word. Very funny, very well written.