Stories of crime and detection have inspired some of the most popular movies and television seri of the 20th century. Hollywood, film makers and television producers alike have based some of their successful works on original novels and short stories of murder and mystery. This collection of stories and the facts about how films and TV dramas were filmed is divided into two sections: the first features the which have inspired films and the second those made into TV dramas or series. The authors of the original works amount to a roll call of the great names of crime fiction.

Contents:

• Old Man Menace by Louis Joseph Vance
• The Ghost of John Holling by Edgar Wallace
• Nobody’s All Bad by W.R. Burnett
• The Three Garridebs by Thomas H. Hutchinson
• The Unknown Traitor by Eric Ambler
• The Killers by Ernest Hemingway
• Reward for Survivors by George Harmon Coxe
• It Had to Be Murder by Cornell Woolrich
• Forbidden Fruit by Edgar Lustgarten
• To Break the Wall by Evan Hunter
• Down the Long Night by William F. Nolan
• The Case of the Howling Dog by Erle Stanley Gardner
• Equal Status by Elwyn Jones
• Inspector Maigret Hesitates by Georges Simenon
• Kick It or Kill by Mickey Spillane
• Larger Than Life by Anthony Shaffer
• There Are Some Days... by Frederick Forsyth
• The Embassy Incident by Brian Clemens
• The Glory Hunter by Brian Garfield
• Saint Nick Alas by Tony Hoare
• The Dripping by David Morrell
• Your Appointment Is Cancelled by Antonia Fraser
• A Case of Coincidence by Ruth Rendell
• The End of an Era by Richard Levinson & William Link
• Mr. Big by Woody Allen