![]() ![]() It occurs to the cop on the scene that the dog probably belongs to the woman. The dog doesn’t seem to be intending to hurt her. The woman isn’t dead and while she’s hurt she doesn’t seem to be in immediate danger of death. The cops could of course just shoot the dog but they don’t want to. It’s a big dog, a really big dog, and it has no intention of letting anyone in. A crowd has gathered and the cops have arrived but nobody can get in through those glass doors to help the woman because of the dog. What the witnesses (including Sweeney) see is the immediate aftermath of a crime rather than the crime itself. The crime, an attack on a woman, takes place behind locked glass doors. He doesn’t think he left Chicago during that time but he can’t be sure of anything. ![]() It could be a few days, it could be a couple of weeks. Sweeney is not sure how long he’s been drunk. The Screaming Mimi is the story of a drunken Irish newspaperman named Sweeney. ![]() The Screaming Mimi has been reprinted by Bruin in a two-novel paperback edition, paired with a slightly later Brown crime novel, The Far Cry. It was filmed in 1958 and in 1970 it was adapted (apparently “unoffically”) by Dario Argento as The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. ![]() The Screaming Mimi, published in 1949, is one of his earlier crime novels. Although he was a pretty big deal in the crime genre he is a writer whom I’ve overlooked until now. Fredric Brown (1906-1972) was an American writer of science fiction and crime fiction. ![]()
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