Headed for a Hearse
by Jonathan Latimerliterary work· published 1935
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Headed for a Hearse is a murder mystery by Jonathan Latimer, the second in the series to feature Detective Bill Crane. It was first published by Doubleday Doran as part of the Crime Club in 1935. In 1937 it served as the basis for the film, The Westland Case. In his 1990 introduction to the novel, Max Allan Collins locates the book as a typical fiction of the 1930s, but one that straddles genres in a "successful melding of the hardboiled novel and the classic drawing room mystery". It is of its time, the era of the Great Depression in the United States, in its compensatory descriptions of conspicuous consumption, the wealthy lifestyle and lavish dining of the rich.
Adaptations (1)
Headed for a Hearse was adapted into a 1937 film.
