GUMSHOE (1971)
STEPHEN FREARS
Plot
Ginley is a bingo-caller, in a Liverpool working-men's club, who dreams of writing and starring in 'The Maltese Falcon' and recording Blue Suede Shoes, and who dons a trench coat and talks rapidly out of the side of his mouth. Then one day he gets plunged into a real murder mystery - a brilliant pastiche.