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The Corpse Had a Familiar Face is an American crime drama television film directed by Joyce Chopra and written by Derek Marlowe and Dennis Turner. It is suggested by the autobiography of the same name by Edna Buchanan. It stars Elizabeth Montgomery as Buchanan, with Dennis Farina, Yaphet Kotto, and Audra Lindley in supporting roles.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning police reporter recalls her eighteen years covering the police beat for The Miami Herald and describes the city, its diverse people, its underworld, and the diverse criminals and cases she encountered during her career. Reprint. Genres Nonfiction True Crime Journalism Crime Memoir Mystery Writing.
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Mar 27, 1994 · The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Directed by Joyce Chopra. With Elizabeth Montgomery, Dennis Farina, Yaphet Kotto, Audra Lindley. A tough Miami criminal journalist played by Elizabeth Montgomery investigates the disappearance of 16 year-old Alice Nicholson.
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- Drama
- Joyce Chopra
- 1994-03-27
Jul 14, 2009 · Nobody covered love and lunacy, life and death on Miami’s mean streets better than legendary Miami Herald police reporter Edna Buchanan. Winner of a 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Edna has seen it all, including more than 5,000 corpses. Many of them had familiar faces.
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Many of them had familiar faces. Edna Buchanan doesn’t write about cops—she writes about people: the father who murdered his comatose toddler in her hospital crib; fifteen-year-old Charles Cobb—a lethal killer; Gary Robinson, who "died hungry"; the Haitian who was knitted to death in a Hialeah factory; and the naked man who threw his ...
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- July 14, 2009
In The Corpse Had a Familiar Face, Edna Buchanan, a former crime reporter for the Miami Herald, takes us on a gripping journey through the underbelly of Miami. Buchanan's narrative is a collection of her most memorable cases, each one more chilling than the last.
Jul 14, 2009 · Nobody covered love and lunacy, life and death on Miami’s mean streets better than legendary Miami Herald police reporter Edna Buchanan. Winner of a 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Edna has seen it...
