After reading a book by Stanton Forbes called A Business of
Bodies, the primary setting for which is a funeral home, I
started to make a checklist of other detective novels which
take place in such establishments and/or which have
undertakers or morticians as sleuths.
A preliminary list can be found at http://www.mysteryfile.com/FuneralHomes.html
. In terms of pulp stories, I have the Horatio Humberton
stories that appeared in the reprint collection that came out
last year from Battered Silicon Box; the Dr. Coffin series by
Perley Poore Sheehan; and one one-shot detective named Dicken
Cook, created by G. T. Fleming-Roberts. (Thanks to Mark
Halegua and Monte Herridge for the assistance on the last
two.)
There must be others, maybe even tons of them? I'm not
looking for stories taking places in morgues, only funeral
homes.
In terms of novels, the books below are possible entries, but
I don't have access to mine, nor have I read them recently
enough (or never) to know. Perhaps someone here can say,
either way?
MERLE CONSTINER - Hearse of a Different Color (Phoenix Press,
hc, 1952).
M. E. CHABER - A Hearse of Another Color (Rinehart & Co.,
hc, 1958).
And there must be others. Help me out, if you can. (And if
you would, email me directly as well as to the list.)
Best
Steve
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