Table of Contents (Titles in parentheses are of the film versions) Acknowledgments x Preface 1 Introduction: Why Can't the Movie Be Just Like the Book? 3 Charlotte Armstrong: The Case of the Weird Sisters 11 The Unsuspected 13 Mischief (Don't Bother to Knock) 15 John Ball: In the Heat of the Night 18 Earl Derr Biggers: The Black Camel 21 John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps 23 W.R. Burnett: The Asphalt Jungle 27 James M. Cain: Love's Lovely Counterfeit (Slightly Scarlet) 29 Vera Caspary: Laura 32 Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep 34 The Lady in the Lake (Lady in the Lake) 40 Lee Child: One Shot (Jack Reacher) 42 Agatha Christie: 4:50 from Paddington (Murder, She Said; What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw) 44 Mary Higgins Clark: The Cradle Will Fall 48 Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White 50 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet 54 The Hound of the Baskervilles 56 Michael Connelly: Blood Work 61 Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca 63 Dick Francis: Dead Cert 68 Blood Sport 70 Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Velvet Claws 72 David Goodis: Down There (Shoot the Piano Player; Tirez sur le Pianiste) 74 Graham Greene: A Gun for Sale (This Gun for Hire; Short Cut to Hell) 77 Patrick Hamilton: Hangover Square 80 Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (Satan Met a Lady) 84 The Thin Man 89 A.P. Herbert: The House by the River 93 Patricia Highsmith: Strangers on a Train (Once You Kiss [Meet] a Stranger.) 96 The Talented Mr.
Ripley (Purple Noon; Plain Soleil) 103 Tony Hillerman: The Dark Wind 106 A Thief of Time 108 Dorothy B. Hughes: In a Lonely Place 111 Francis Iles: Before the Fact (Suspicion) 113 Carolyn Keene: The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase) 116 Gypsy Rose Lee: The G-String Murders (Lady of Burlesque) 118 Jeff Lindsay: Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter) 120 John D. MacDonald: The Executioners (Cape Fear) 123 Ross Macdonald: The Moving Target (Harper) 128 John P. Marquand: Think Fast, Mr. Moto 132 Ed McBain: Cop Hater 135 Fuzz 138 King's Ransom (High and Low; Tengoku to jigoku) 140 Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress 142 Stuart Palmer: The Penguin Pool Murder 145 Robert B. Parker: Ceremony 149 Edgar Allan Poe: "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (Phantom of the Rue Morgue) 153 "The Mystery of Marie Roget" 160 Ellery Queen: The Chinese Orange Mystery (The Mandarin Mystery) 163 Patrick Quentin: Black Widow 165 Ruth Rendell: A Judgment in Stone (La Cérémonie) 169 Craig Rice: Home Sweet Homicide 171 Dorothy L. Sayers: Busman's Honeymoon (Haunted Honeymoon) 173 Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö: The Laughing Policeman 176 Mickey Spillane: My Gun Is Quick 179 Josephine Tey: A Shilling for Candles (Young and Innocent) 181 Jim Thompson: Pop. 1280 (Coup de Torchon) 184 After Dark, My Sweet 187 S.
S. Van Dine: The Kennel Murder Case 189 The Gracie Allen Murder Case 192 Ethel Lina White: Some Must Watch (The Spiral Staircase) 194 Cornell Woolrich: Black Alibi (The Leopard Man) 198 Rear Window 200 The Black Path of Fear (The Chase) 203 I Married a Dead Man (No Man of Her Own; I Married a Shadow; Mrs. Winterbourne) 206 Bibliography 211 Index 213.