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The Case of the River Morgue
Prismark1021 January 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Scotland Yard are called in when a body at a morgue disappears.

It then suddenly reappears with different clothes. The dead man appears to have fallen in a river and drowned.

The police manage to identify the dead man. He was a diabetic who needed regular insulin.

It is just that the corpse had no signs of ever being diabetic.

A puzzle for the police. However the possibility of a large life insurance payout to the deceased's wife means that they follow a lead that takes them to the south of France.

The police soon figure that this is a scam life insurance claim. They just need to find the supposedly dead man and his wife.

It is a clever story although these type of fake life insurance scams tend to be a bit more known about these days. The story also has a bitter twist.
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Echoes of The Third Man
l_rawjalaurence17 February 2018
A simple tale of whether body is dead or not, and the London sewers is here given an artistic twist, with some of the shots in the dark having a distinct echo of THE THIRD MAN. It's nice to see this twist, reminding us that B Pictures often have distinguished antecedents, if we are prepared to look for them.
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