Table of Contents
Table of Contents
(Titles in parentheses are of the film versions)
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Why Can’t the Movie Be Just Like the Book?
Charlotte Armstrong: The Case of the Weird Sisters
The Unsuspected
Mischief (Don’t Bother to Knock)
John Ball: In the Heat of the Night
Earl Derr Biggers: The Black Camel
John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps
W.R. Burnett: The Asphalt Jungle
James M. Cain: Love’s Lovely Counterfeit (Slightly Scarlet)
Vera Caspary: Laura
Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep
The Lady in the Lake (Lady in the Lake)
Lee Child: One Shot (Jack Reacher)
Agatha Christie: 4:50 from Paddington (Murder, She Said; What Mrs.
McGillicuddy Saw)
Mary Higgins Clark: The Cradle Will Fall
Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Michael Connelly: Blood Work
Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca
Dick Francis: Dead Cert
Blood Sport
Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Velvet Claws
David Goodis: Down There (Shoot the Piano Player; Tirez sur le Pianiste)
Graham Greene: A Gun for Sale (This Gun for Hire; Short Cut to Hell)
Patrick Hamilton: Hangover Square
Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (Satan Met a Lady)
The Thin Man
A.P. Herbert: The House by the River
Patricia Highsmith: Strangers on a Train (Once You Kiss [Meet] a Stranger…)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Purple Noon; Plain Soleil)
Tony Hillerman: The Dark Wind
A Thief of Time
Dorothy B. Hughes: In a Lonely Place
Francis Iles: Before the Fact (Suspicion)
Carolyn Keene: The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew and the Hidden
Staircase)
Gypsy Rose Lee: The G-String Murders (Lady of Burlesque)
Jeff Lindsay: Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter)
John D. MacDonald: The Executioners (Cape Fear)
Ross Macdonald: The Moving Target (Harper)
John P. Marquand: Think Fast, Mr. Moto
Ed McBain: Cop Hater
Fuzz
King’s Ransom (High and Low; Tengoku to jigoku)
Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress
Stuart Palmer: The Penguin Pool Murder
Robert B. Parker: Ceremony
Edgar Allan Poe: “Murders in the Rue Morgue” (Phantom of the Rue Morgue)
“The Mystery of Marie Roget”
Ellery Queen: The Chinese Orange Mystery (The Mandarin Mystery)
Patrick Quentin: Black Widow
Ruth Rendell: A Judgment in Stone (La Cérémonie)
Craig Rice: Home Sweet Homicide
Dorothy L. Sayers: Busman’s Honeymoon (Haunted Honeymoon)
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö: The Laughing Policeman
Mickey Spillane: My Gun Is Quick
Josephine Tey: A Shilling for Candles (Young and Innocent)
Jim Thompson: Pop. 1280 (Coup de Torchon)
After Dark, My Sweet
S.S. Van Dine: The Kennel Murder Case
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Ethel Lina White: Some Must Watch (The Spiral Staircase)
Cornell Woolrich: Black Alibi (The Leopard Man)
Rear Window
The Black Path of Fear (The Chase)
I Married a Dead Man (No Man of Her Own; I Married a Shadow; Mrs. Winterbourne)
Bibliography
Index
