Norma Crane

            At 8:45 on Wednesday I was going to do some writing till 9:30 but I suddenly felt very sleepy and so I had to go to bed. I slept until 10:15 and had a dream that I can’t remember, although it seemed pleasant. I worked until 11:00 on my review of Shab-e She’r.

            The problem with early siestas is that one feels tired again in the afternoon. I went back to bed at 15:30 and didn’t get up till 16:30. I went out to the liquor store to buy a can of beer and the fresh air helped to wake me up a bit.

             I received an email from the model coordinator offering me my first work in January but I had to turn it down because it conflicted with my Thursday night Creative Writing class.

            I had an egg, toast and a beer for dinner and watched Peter Gunn. This story begins with someone with a gun entering Nancy Fowler’s apartment and killing her. Next we see a woman named Edna Wolfe entering a not yet open Mother’s from the back while Edie is rehearsing "Easy Street” by Alan Rankin Jones. Edna wants to hire Gunn to protect her from being murdered by her husband George and his lover Nancy. She says she’s heard them talking about it on the phone. She gives Gunn Nancy’s address. When Gunn goes there he sees George entering the building. When Gunn gets to Nancy’s apartment the door is open and he runs into George on his way out. Nancy’s body is still there from when we saw her killed earlier. Gunn asks George if the body is that of Nancy Fowler. George says that he doesn’t know because he’s never seen Nancy Fowler in his life. George tells Lieutenant Jacoby that Nancy called him in his capacity as a lawyer, said the matter was urgent and that she couldn’t wait to meet him in his office the next day and so he agreed to come to her apartment. After George's arrest Gunn goes to update Edna and then he heads for the police station. On his way he is cut off by a car and the armed driver forces him behind the wheel. The hood gets in the back and with a revolver pointed at Gunn’s head tells him to drive to the river. Gunn swerves the car and smashes it through the wall of a warehouse. The crash kills the hood. At the morgue Jacoby tells Gunn that the dead man was an employee of the mobster Eddie Young. He also tells him that Nancy Fowler had worked for Eddie as well. Gunn goes to Eddie Young’s nightclub and when the assistant manager tries to stop him from entering Eddie’s office her sends the assistant manager through it. Eddie denies sending anyone to kill Gunn but while Gunn is questioning him another employee points a revolver at Gunn and he has to leave. Gunn calls Jacoby and tells him he’s found the killer. He says to meet him at Eddie’s apartment in half an hour. When Eddie comes home Gunn is there to make sure they go to his place together. He forces Eddie to call a number, say, “They found out! We’re in big trouble! Get over here fast!” and hang up. About fifteen minutes later Edna arrives. Gunn tells her he knows that she had Eddie kill Nancy and tried to frame George with the murder so she could be with Eddie because George was too old.

            Edna was played by Norma Crane, who played Golde, Tevye’s wife in the film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. She was a close friend of Natalie Wood.