I was just looking through The Glass Key again and remembered I was intrigued about Ned’s whistling Little Lost Lady twice that I can find again. All I could find with a search engine was that an episode of The First Nighter, which was a radio broadcast from 1930-1953 was entitled Little Lost Lady. These episodes were based on Day Keene’s novels, which were hard-boiled detective stories as well. One of the beginning lines of one of his works was, “In the beginning God created heaven and earth. In the beginning there were no Sputniks or Explorers. In the beginning Kurt Renner had no intention of killing Kelcey Anders. The thought never entered his mind. He merely intended to use him.” The only other time i could find Little Lost Lady was that it was the name of a novel written by Alaska in 1940. Nell Shipman took parts from this story and added them into his film The Naked North (another novel written by Alaska).
Anyway, my point is that I’m curious if anyone else knows anything about the tune Ned whistles once after dealing with Opal, and once right before seeing Janet. If not, does anyone think that he made this title up to make a point about the story, that it meant nothing at all, or something completely different altogether?