(I'm catching up on old posts)
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, "George Pelecanos" <
shoedog1@erols.com> wrote:
> In the late 80s Maxim Jakubowski edited a trade
paperback
> series for Simon and Schuster called Blue Murder,
which
> included those two titles. The gimmick was that all
of the
> books in the series had been made into noir or
noirish
> films. Maxim wrote an introduction for each book
detailing
> the author's career. Among the other titles were
William
> McGivern's THE BIG HEAT, Charles Williams's THE
DIAMOND
> BIKINI, Gil Brewer's 13 FRENCH STREET and THE RED
SCARF, and
> Woolrich's REAR WINDOW. Most importantly, the
series
> introduced me to Thornburg's CUTTER AND BONE and
Goodis's
> THE BURGLAR.
Peter Haining edited The Mammoth Book Of Movie Detectives
& Screen Crimes (Carroll & Graf, 1998, which
previously was two separate volumes called Crime Movies and
Crime Movies II, published by Severn House in the mid 90s),
which has a similar conceit: short stories which were later
transformed into films and TV episodes/series.
It too includes Woolrich's 'It Had To Be Murder' (AKA 'Rear
Window'), as well as Evan Hunter's 'To Break The Wall' (made
into 'The Blackboard Jungle'), and W.R. Burnett's 'Nobody's
All Bad' (made into 'Little Caesar'). It features a William
Nolan story made into an episode of 'The Naked City,' an Erle
Stanley Gardner story made into an episode of
'Perry Mason,' and 'Kick It or Kill,' a Mickey Spillane story
adapted into a film I've never heard of starring the author
himself, called 'The Girl Hunters.'
It's also got an Eric Ambler story, Hemingway's 'The
Killers,' one by Ruth Rendell, and more. Not a bad $3
remaindered softcover.
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