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Big book of reel murders

ID 359864
Slug big-book-of-reel-murders
Contributors
Annotation
Description <b>Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology rolls out the red carpet for the stories that Hollywood is made of. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original.</b><br></br><br></br>Lights! Camera! Action! The latest book in the Big Book series takes us behind the curtain to uncover the stories that became some of the greatest films of the silver screen. There's the W. Somerset Maugham short story that inspired Hitchcock's <i>Secret Agent</i>; Robert Louis Stevenson's horrifying tale that was later turned into the iconic movie <i>The Body Snatcher</i>, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff; Sir Ian Fleming's "From a View to a Kill," later one of Roger Moore's greatest Bond films; and "Cyclists' Raid," the short story that formed the basis for the legendary Brando film <i>The Wild One</i>. <br></br><br></br>Otto Penzler delivers the director's cut on these classic short stories and the films they gave rise to. So grab your Sno-Caps and a jumbo box of popcorn and curl up with these cinematic tales from the likes of Agatha Christie, Dennis Lehane, Joyce Carol Oates, Dashiell Hammett, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Subjects
331 Detective NUR
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Publisher Vintage US
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 1200
Duration
Publication date first 2019-10-22
Publication date latest 2019-10-22
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  • ISBN: 9780525563884 (BC)

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