People / Ruth Channing / Keywords
private detective
screwball
based on novel
christmas
family relationships
missing person
marriage
criminal
brother sister relationship
face slap
father son relationship
corpse
new york city
urban setting
character appears in newspaper
manhattan new york city
father daughter relationship
private eye
alcohol
1930s
detective
taxi
ex husband ex wife relationship
beautiful woman
lawyer
divorce
dinner party
dinner
mysterious man
amateur detective
cocktail party
boyfriend girlfriend relationship
dead body
honeymoon
dead woman
christmas tree
macguffin
lieutenant
wanted poster
high society
inventor
innuendo
sophisticated comedy
mistress
whodunit
finding a dead body
cocktail
christmas eve
long distance call
domestic dispute
bigamy
oedipus complex
pouring alcohol down someone's throat
firearm
hotel suite
mother's boyfriend
booze
chorus line
booze drinking
couple sleep in separate beds
fox terrier
grant's tomb manhattan new york city
hidden safe
husband and wife sleuths
married detective
mutt
nick and nora charles
pet owner relationship
sparse music score
wiseguy dialogue
sophistication
title same as book
pet dog
wit
dog
murder
mistaken identity
martini
irreverence
mother son relationship
nipples visible through clothing
husband wife relationship
title spoken by character
newspaper headline
gun
drunkenness
party
mother daughter relationship
police
sex
wisecrack humor
wedding
police detective