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Umney's Last Case (1995) is a short story written by Stephen King and published as a separate booklet as part of Penguin's 60th anniversary. It also appeared in Nightmares & Dreamscapes - a collection of King's stories.
[edit] Plot summary
The story begins as a Raymond Chandler pastiche, and follows a private investigator named Umney as he goes about what he thinks is just another morning in 1930s Los Angeles. He soon discovers that his life as he knows it is falling apart, and is brooding alone in his office when he receives his final client: the crime-fiction author who created him. Through some unknown means, Umney is forced to trade places with the writer and finds himself in the year 1994, where he assumes his new identity but has the goal of returning to his own universe.
The idea of the writer-as-God would be revisited by King in his 2004 novel The Dark Tower VI - Song of Susannah.
[edit] Television
"Umney's Last Case" was included as the third installment of TNT's Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, starring William H. Macy. It originally aired on July 19, 2006.
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Novels:
- Carrie (1974)
- ’Salem's Lot (1975)
- Rage (as Richard Bachman) (1977)
- The Shining (1977)
- The Stand (1978; revised edition, 1990)
- The Dead Zone (1979)
- The Long Walk (as Richard Bachman) (1979)
- Firestarter (1980)
- Cujo (1981)
- Roadwork (as Richard Bachman) (1981)
- The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (1982; revised edition, 2003)
- The Running Man (as Richard Bachman) (1982)
- Christine (1983)
- Pet Sematary (1983)
- Cycle of the Werewolf (1983)
- The Talisman (1984, written with Peter Straub)
- Thinner (as Richard Bachman) (1984)
- It (1986)
- The Eyes of the Dragon (1987)
- Misery (1987)
- The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
- The Tommyknockers (1988)
- The Dark Half (1989)
- Needful Things (1990)
- The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991)
- Gerald's Game (1992)
- Dolores Claiborne (1993)
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- Insomnia (1994)
- Rose Madder (1995)
- The Green Mile (1996)
- Desperation (1996)
- The Regulators (as Richard Bachman) (1996)
- The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997)
- Bag of Bones (1998)
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
- Dreamcatcher (2001)
- Black House (2001, written with Peter Straub)
- From a Buick 8 (2002)
- The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
- The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (2004)
- The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004)
- The Colorado Kid (2005)
- Cell (2006)
- Lisey's Story (2006)
- Blaze (2007)
- Duma Key (2008)
Non-fiction:
- Danse Macabre (1981)
- Nightmares in the Sky (1988)
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000)
- Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing (2000)
- Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (2005, written with Stewart O'Nan)
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Short fiction:
- Night Shift (1978, collection)
- Different Seasons (1982, collection)
- Skeleton Crew (1985, collection)
- Dark Visions (with George R. R. Martin and Dan Simmons) (1988, collection)
- "Dolan's Cadillac" (1989, chapbook)
- "My Pretty Pony" (1989)
- Four Past Midnight (1990, collection)
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993, collection)
- "Umney's Last Case" (1995, booklet)
- Six Stories (1997, limited edition collection)
- "The New Lieutenant's Rap" (1999, chapbook)
- Hearts in Atlantis (1999, collection)
- "Riding the Bullet" (2000, ebook)
- Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (2002, collection)
Audiobooks:
- L.T.'s Theory of Pets
- Blood and Smoke (2000)
- Stationary Bike (2006)
Other:
- The Dark Tower series and comics
- The Bachman Books (novel collection) (1985)
- The Plant (2000)
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