The Lady in the Morgue is a 1938 American mystery film directed by Otis Garrett and written by Eric Taylor and Robertson White.

[1] The film stars Preston Foster, Patricia Ellis, Frank Jenks, Thomas E. Jackson, Wild Bill Elliott, Roland Drew and Barbara Pepper.

[1] Detective Bill Crane investigates the murder of the morgue keeper and the disappearance of a blond's dead body.

{{castlist|* In 1937, Universal Pictures made a deal with the Crime Club, who were published of whodunnits.

[3] From retrospective reviews, the authors of the book Universal Horrors stated that the film was a "confusing yarn" and that "all the ingredients for a crackerjack mystery thriller are here, but somewhere along the line, this inconsequential meller misses the mark.