Overview

Watching the screen version of a classic mystery novel can be disappointing. By necessity or artistic license (or possibly just ego) changes are often made by the filmmakers--many of them ineffective or even detrimental. This book focuses on the screen adaptations of 65 famous mysteries and examines how the filmmakers either succeeded or failed in the telling of the story. Interviews with several famous mystery writers are included, with their comments on how filmmakers treated their work.

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Author:   Ron Miller
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9781476666853

ISBN 10:   1476666857
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   20 February 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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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

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informative...entertaining...perfect for the mystery fan who likes both classic mysteries and their film adaptations...wonderful --Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine; mystery movie buffs will have a great time with this book...excellent --Mystery Scene; thorough --Flick Attack.

informative...entertaining...perfect for the mystery fan who likes both classic mysteries and their film adaptations...wonderful --Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine; mystery movie buffs will have a great time with this book...excellent --Mystery Scene; thorough --Flick Attack; this well-reasearched book examines the way sixty-five novels and short stories have been adapted for the screen --Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy.

"""informative...entertaining...perfect for the mystery fan who likes both classic mysteries and their film adaptations...wonderful""--Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine; ""mystery movie buffs will have a great time with this book...excellent""--Mystery Scene; ""thorough""--Flick Attack; ""this well-reasearched book examines the way sixty-five novels and short stories have been adapted for the screen""--Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy."

informative...entertaining...perfect for the mystery fam who likes both classic mysteries and their film adaptations...wonderful --Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine; mystery movie buffs will have a great time with this book...excellent --Mystery Scene; thorough --Flick Attack.

Author Information

Ron Miller is the former nationally syndicated television columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, and Knight-Ridder, newspapers, a former national president of the Television Critics Association and a National Headliner award winner for his columns. He lives in Blaine, Washington.

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