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THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF MOVIE DETECTIVES AND SCREEN CRIMES by Peter--Ed. Haining

THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF MOVIE DETECTIVES AND SCREEN CRIMES

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Pub Date: Nov. 1st, 1998
Publisher: Carroll & Graf

Despite this anthology's title, its 25 reprints are divided almost equally into two categories: stories by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Wallace, Cornell Woolrich, George Harmon Coxe, and Edgar Lustgarten that served as the basis for TV or film adaptations, and non-adapted stories by authors like W.R. Burnett, Eric Ambler, Evan Hunter, Georges Simenon, Mickey Spillane, Frederick Forsyth, and Woody Allen that have been the basis for adaptations.