// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did "A Case to Answer" say to the lawyer? You've got a case against me.

A Case to Answer is a 1947 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Lustgarten.^[1] It was published in London by Eyre & Spottiswoode and in New York by Scribners under the alternative title One More Unfortunate.^[2] It portrays the trial of a young man for murdering a Soho prostitute.^[3]

Film adaptation

In 1951 it was adapted into the British film The Long Dark Hall. Produced by London Films, it starred Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer.^[4]

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