![]() To accomplish this, Sweeney has to sober up and get his job back as a reporter at the Chicago Blade and, as a way to get into Yolanda’s good graces, solve the Ripper murders that have been plaguing the city. Sweeney doesn’t know that the woman is a stripper and doesn’t know that this is an extracurricular version of her act, but he finds her stunningly beautiful and decides then and there that he wants to spend a night with her. A night with herĪs the story opens, Sweeney has been on a three-week bender when, after midnight, he happens upon a small crowd looking through the vestibule door of an apartment house at a beautiful blonde who has a stab wound in the abdomen and is being guarded by her growling canine. ![]() In the book, published in 1949, she’s a stripper who does an act in which her wolf-like dog Devil leaps at her, grabs a silk tab on her strapless evening gown with his teeth and pulls down, causing the dress to fall. In the movie, the Ekberg character Yolanda Lang is an exotic dancer at the El Madhouse night club. ![]() It stars Philip Carey as Sweeney and also features Anita Ekberg and Gypsy Rose Lee. To back up a moment: Earlier this year, I watched the 1958 crime noir movie based on Brown’s book and using that book’s title. ![]() I knew ahead of time the solution to the puzzle that Fredric Brown’s on-the-wagon Chicago reporter Bill Sweeney was trying to solve in The Screaming Mimi, and I still found the book’s ending to be quite effective. ![]()
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