Umney's Last Case
Stephen King's Umney's Last Case (1995) is a horror novella. The story is set in Los Angeles, in the 1930s. It features Clyde Umney and Landry. It deals with metalepsis.
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It runs to roughly 92 pages — about an hour and a half of reading at an average pace.
About Umney's Last Case
It’s just another ordinary day in 1930s Los Angeles for private investigator Clyde Umney, until a new client walks into his office. Umney soon learns that his client is the crime-fiction writer who not only created him, but now needs to switch places with him. An unknown power forces Umney to take on the writer’s identity in the year 1994. Now, Clyde needs to figure out how to get back to his own universe and then take revenge on his creator.
Quick answers
Who wrote Umney's Last Case?
Umney's Last Case was written by Stephen King and first published in 1995.
What genre is Umney's Last Case?
It is usually shelved as Horror.
How long is Umney's Last Case?
The median edition has 92 pages, about about an hour and a half of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Umney's Last Case?
Readers who like it often enjoy The Lightning Thief, At the Mountains of Madness and Coraline.
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