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The Mammoth Book of Movie Detectives & Screen Crimes
The Mammoth Book of Movie Detectives Screen Crimes
Author: Peter Haining (Editor)
Original stories of crime and detection that were the inspiration behind some of the best-loved screen successes. Includes: —
  • Old man menace / Louis Joseph Vance (The lone wolf [films, 1919-58])
  • The ghost of John Holling / Edgar Wallace (Edgar Wallace Mysteries : The mystery liner [films, 1925-59])
  • Nobody's all bad / W...  more »
  • The three Garridebs / Thomas H. Hutchinson (Sherlock Holmes, [TV series, 1937-94])
  • The unknown traitor / Eric Ambler (Epitaph for a spy [film, 1944])
  • The killers / Ernest Hemingway (The killers [film, 1946])
  • Reward for survivors / George Harmon Coxe (Crime photographer [TV series, 1952-2])
  • It had to be murder / Cornell Woolrich (Rear window [film, 1954])
  • Forbidden fruit / Edgar Lustgarten (Scotland Yard [TV series, 1955-7])
  • To break the wall / Evan Hunter (The blackboard jungle [film, 1955])
  • Down the long night / William F. Nolan (Naked city [TV series, 1958-62])
  • The case of the howling dog / Erle Stanley Gardner (Perry Mason [TV series, 1957-93])
  • Equal status / Elwyn Jones (Softly, softly [TV series, 1966-76])
  • Inspector Maigret hesitates / Georges Simenon (Maigret [TV series, 1960-63])
  • Kick it of kill / Mickey Spillane (The girl hunters [film, 1963])
  • Larger than life / Anthony Shaffer (Sleuth [film, 1972])
  • There are some days ... / Frederick Forsyth (The day of the Jackal [film, 1973])
  • The embassy incident / Brian Clemens (The professionals [TV series, 1977-83])
  • The glory hunter / Brian Garfield (Death wish [film, 1975])
  • Saint Nick Alas / Tony Hoare (Minder [TV series, 1980-95])
  • The dripping / David Morrell (Rambo [film, 1982])
  • Your appointment is cancelled / Antonia Fraser (Jemima Shore investigates [TV series, 1983-84])
  • A case of coincidence / Ruth Rendell
  • The end of an era / Richard Levinson & William Link (Columbo [TV series, 1971-])
  • Mr. Big / Woody Allen (Manhattan murder mystery [film, 1994])
ISBN-13: 9780786705849
ISBN-10: 0786705841
Publication Date: 9/16/1998
Pages: 464
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Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Book Type: Paperback
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