Nightmare Alley

 

Book menu for Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham

Food mentioned in Nightmare Alley:
Lemon Soda, 526
Milk, 534
Beer, 534, 656, 789, 791
Pretzels, 534
Popcorn, 542, 558
Coffee, 551-552, 660, 669, 677, 759, 785, 787
Orange juice, 552
Eggs, 552,677
     Bacon and eggs, 660
     Ham and eggs, 784-785
Melba toast, 552
Chocolate bar, 579
Whiskey, 603, 606
     Scotch, 678-679
Bread and jelly, 613
Champagne, 626, 630, 632
Tea, 651
Taffy, 661
Chicken with rice and gravy, 668
Brandy, 682-683, 689, 695, 705, 719-720, 725-726, 738, 751
     Hennessy, 693-694, 750
Manhattans, 693
Martinis, 693
Applejack, 704
Jasmine tea, p.741
Raspberry Sherbet, 766

Books/Authors mentioned in Nightmare Alley:
"The Wasteland" / T.S. Eliot, p.521
The Satyricon / Petronius, p. 521
Arthur Conan Doyle, p. 657

Music mentioned in Nightmare Alley:
"Sweet Rosie O'Grady", 530
"Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me", 597
"Oh My Laddie, My Laddie", 613
"The Old Rugged Cross", 638
"On the other Side of Jordan", 638, 646, 653
"Hark, Hark the Lark at Heaven's Gate", 653
Charlie McCarthy, 679
Phil Requete, 680
"Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad/ Bobby Burns, 680
"Treues Liebes Herz" from The Harlot's House / Strauss, 693

Magazines mentioned in Nightmare Alley:
Variety, 656

Page numbers refer to Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and '40s
(ISBN: 1883011469)

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