Talk:Over My Dead Body (novel)

Illustrations
WFinch, the illustrations of book jackets and magazine illustrations you've been putting up are extremely cool, and they evoke the noir sense of that period so well, particularly Mueller's (I don't much care for the Bill English designs). I've never seen them before. OTOH, I've spent very little time with the Wolfe Pack's cover pages. You must have access to a collector's set of American Magazine and the original hardcovers, yes? I wonder if it would be possible to get at a better version of the Saturday Evening Post's illustration for Method Three than appears in the Bantam back matter. And I guess that's supposed to be Archie on the Dead Body cover, standing behind Neya when they discover Faber's body -- bug eyes? a five o'clock shadow? and Archie complains he doesn't have enough nose? Great illustration, but sheesh -- it might as well have been Lionel Stander posing. TurnerHodges 20:24, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The OMDB issue of The American Magazine was a gift from my first Wolfe friend, and my first Wolfe magazine. They don't get any better than this one, unless you count "Bitter End." Carl Mueller — no Wikipedia article on him, is there. I've hoped in putting the magazine information front and center that people will look for these gems in their relatives' attics or dig through piles of magazines in antique stores to find them, save them. As much fun as the images are to look at, it's especially nice to see them in context, go through the magazines themselves. You're right in that time (and you may stumble across another Nero Wolfe cartoon — I still haven't, though). I don't think many people have seen these illustrations before, and I'm having to use great restraint in uploading them.


 * I don't have "Method Three for Murder" but I'll work on getting a scan. I don't have the Bantam edition, either, but I assume the illustration is by Austin Briggs, whose work is in the wow category. Among other things he illustrated "Frame Up for Murder" for the SEP (the Archie illustration uploaded by another magazine collector), and "Easter Parade" for Look. Wow. — WFinch 18:27, 28 July 2007 (UTC)


 * P.S. When I first visited Wikipedia I came across a scan of the dustjacket for The Black Mountain in an infobox for that article. It was stunning. None of the other books had that treatment. It takes time. It's fun. — WFinch 18:36, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Editorial laziness
A DavidWBrooks saw fit to delete a quotation (since then properly restored) from the article associated with this talk page, on the grounds that it was "obviously copied from a magazine article, or essay, or something like that."

Mr. Brooks' Wikipedia user page says that he is a newspaper reporter. His edit of the OMDB article represents the kind of assiduous, hard hitting, no nonsense reportage that characterized Jayson Blair's work. TurnerHodges (talk) 02:07, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Differences Between The Novel And Its A&E Adaptation
I took the liberty of adding the following to the section on the A&E adaptation:

"The adaptation is faithful to the novel save for a few changes in detail, such as Donald Barrett being renamed Duncan Barrett and Archie conscripting a bellboy at the Maidstone Building to provide his uniform for Carla Lovchen instead of phoning a nearby hotel and asking the house detective he knows there to send a bellboy over to make the switch with Carla. The script also contains a factual error: when Zorka is unmasked, Wolfe says she was born in "Ottumwa, Minnesota", instead of Ottumwa, Iowa, as in the novel."

That should do, at least for starters. (By the way, perhaps the screenwriter was thinking of Owatonna, Minnesota?)TH1980 (talk) 22:04, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

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