RARA-AVIS: Bibliographies: W.R. Burnett

Believed to be complete. Almost all of this information was gathered from Katherine Harper's W.R. Burnett site (now disappeared), which featured annotations and comments on most listings.

Books

• Little Caesar (Lincoln McVeagh/Dial, 1929)
• The Silver Eagle (McVeagh/Dial, 1931)
• The Giant Swing (Harper. 1932)
• Iron Man (McVeagh/Dial, 1932)
• "Saint" Johnson (McVeagh/Dial, 1932)
• Dark Hazard (Harper, 1933)
• Goodbye to the Past: Scenes from the Life of William Meadows (Harper, 1934)
• The Goodhues of Sinking Creek (Harper, 1934) (based on "Hard Wood")
• King Cole (Harper, 1936)
• The Dark Command: A Kansas Iliad (Knopf, 1938)
• High Sierra (Knopf, 1940)
• The Quick Brown Fox (Knopf, 1942)
• Nobody Lives Forever (Knopf, 1943; serialized in Collier's, 13 October - 30 October 1943)
• Tomorrow's Another Day (Knopf, 1945)
• Romelle (Knopf, 1946)
• The Asphalt Jungle (Knopf, 1949)
• Stretch Dawson (Gold Medal, 1950)
• Little Men, Big World (Knopf, 1951)
• Vanity Row (Knopf, 1952)
• Adobe Walls: A Novel of the Last Apache Rising (Knopf, 1953)
• Big Stan (Gold Medal, 1953) (as John Monahan)
• Captain Lightfoot (Knopf, 1954)
• It's Always Four O'Clock (Random House, 1956) (as James Updyke)
• Pale Moon (Knopf, 1956)
• Underdog (Knopf, 1957)
• Bitter Ground Knopf, (1958)
• Mi Amigo: A Novel of the Southwest (Knopf, 1959)
• Conant (Popular Library, 1961)
• Round the Clock at Volari's (Gold Medal, 1961)
• The Goldseekers (Doubleday, 1962)
• The Widow Barony (Macdonald, 1962)
• The Abilene Samson (Pocket Books, 1963)
• Sergeants 3 (Pocket Books, 1963)
• The Roar of the Crowd: Conversations With an Ex-Big-Leaguer (C.N. Potter, 1964)
• The Winning of Mickey Free (Bantam Pathfinder, 1965)
• The Cool Man (Gold Medal, 1968)
• Goodbye, Chicago: 1928, End of an Era (St. Martin's, 1981)

Short Fiction

• "Round Trip" (Harper's Monthly Magazine, August 1929)
• "A Modern McTeague" (Saturday Review of Literature, 3 August 1929) (review of Thames Williamson's Hunky)
• "Dressing Up" (Harper's Monthly Magazine, November 1929)
• "The Hunted" (Liberty, ? 1930)
• "Along the Tracks" (Scribner's Magazine, April 1930)
• "Nobody's All Bad" (Colllier's, 7 June 1930)
• "Between Rounds" (Collier's, 30 August 1930)
• "The Czar of Chicago" (Saturday Review of Literature, 18 October 1930) (review of Fred Pasley's Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man)
• "Hard Wood" (Scribner's Magazine, November 1930)
• ? (Saturday Review of Literature, 22 November 1930) (review of Edward Dean Sullivan's Chicago Surrenders)
• "Protection" (serialized in Collier's, 2 May - 4 July 1931)
• "Mr. Litvinoff" (Collier's, 18 July 1931)
• "Primal Simplicity" (Saturday Review of Literature, 10 October 1931) (review of Thames Williamson's In Krusak's House)
• "Strategy" (The American Mercury, February 1933)
• "For Charity's Sake" (Esquire, June 1934)
• "Jail Breaker" (serialed in Collier's, 7 July - 11 August 1934)
• "Doctor Socrates" (serialized in Collier's, 16 March - 20 April 1935)
• "Travelling Light" (Collier's, 7 December 1935)
• "Greyhound Racing" (Esquire, February 1936)
• "Across the Aisle" (Colliers, 4 April 1936)
• "Suspect" (Collier's, 4 July 1936)
• "First Blood" (Collier's, 23 April 1938)
• "The Ivory Tower" (Good Housekeeping, March 1945)
• "Odds Against the Girl" (serialized in Collier's, 30 June - 21 July 1945)
• "Little David" (Saturday Evening Post, 15 February 1947)
• "Racket Alley" (serialized in Collier's, 9 December 1950 - 6 January 1951) (abridged version of Little Men, Big World)
• "Vanishing Act" (Manhunt, November 1955)

Screenplays

• The Finger Points (1931, with Robert Lord and John Monk Saunders)
• Law and Order (1932, from "Saint" Johnson)
• Scarface (1932, with Howard Hawks, Ben Hecht, John Lee Mahin and Seton I. Miller)
• Law and Order (1940, from "Saint" Johnson)
• The Westerner (1940, with Niven Busch, Stuart N. Lake and Jo Swerling; uncredited)
• The Get-Away (1941, with Wells Root and J. Walter Ruben)
• High Sierra (1941, with John Huston, from novel)
• This Gun for Hire (1942, with Albert Maltz)
• Wake Island (1942, with Frank Butlet) (Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay)
• Action on the North Atlantic (1943, with A.T. Bezzerides and John Howard Lawson)
• Background to Danger (1943, with Daniel Fuchs)
• Crash Dive (1943)
• San Antonio (1945, with Alan Le May)
• Nobody Lives Forever (1946, from novel)
• The Man I Love (1946, with Jo Pagano and Catherine Turney; uncredited)
• Belle Starr's Daughter (1948, from ?)
• Yellow Sky (1948, story)
• Vendetta (1950, with Peter O'Crott and Preston Sturges)
• The Racket (1951, with William Wister Haines)
• Dangerous Mission (1954, with Charles Bennett, James Edmiston and Horace McCoy)
• Night People (1954, with Jed Harris, Nunnally Johnson and Tony Reed; uncredited)
• Captain Lightfoot (1955, with Oscar Brodney, from novel)
• I Died a Thousand Times (1955, from High Sierra)
• Illegal (1955, with Frank R. Webb)
• Accused of Murder (1956, from Vanity Row)
• Short Cut to Hell (1957, with Ted Berkman, Raphael Blau and Albert Maltz)
• The Badlanders (1958, from The Asphalt Jungle)
• The Hangman (1959, with Dudley Nichols; uncredited)
• September Storm (1960)
• Sergeants 3 (1962) (story)
• Four for Texas (1963, with Robert Aldrich and Teddi Sherman; uncredited)
• The Great Escape (1963, with James Clavell) (Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay)
• The Jackals (1967, story)
• Ice Station Zebra (1968, with Harry Julian Fink and Douglas Heyes; uncredited)
• Stiletto (1969, with Harold Robbins and A.J. Russell; uncredited)

Adaptations

• Little Caesar (1930, from novel)
• Iron Man (1931, from novel)
• Dark Hazard (1934, from novel)
• The Whole Town's Talking (1935, from "Jail Breaker")
• Dr. Socrates (1935, from novel)
• 36 Hours to Kill (1936, from "Across the Aisle")
• Wine, Women and Horses (1937, from Dark Hazard)
• King of the Underworld (1939, from "Doctor Socrates")
• The Dark Command (1940, from novel)
• Dance Hall (1941, from The Giant Swing)
• Bullet Scars (1942, from "Doctor Socrates")
• Colorado Territoy (1949, from High Sierra)
• The Asphalt Jungle (1950, from novel)
• Iron Man (1951, from novel)
• Law and Order (1953, from "Saint" Johnson)
• Arrowhead (1953, from Adobe Walls)
• Cairo (1963, from The Asphalt Jungle)
• Cool Breeze (1972, from The Asphalt Jungle)