AUTHORS [ I through Z ]
Entries preceded by
a dash
[-] are of marginal crime content. SC = Series
Character(s); scw = screenwriter, dir = director.
CA = Contemporary Authors. ILES, FRANCIS Before the Fact. TV movie: Hemisphere, 1987, as Suspicion (scw: Joan Harrison, Samson Raphaelson, Alma Reville; dir: Andrew Grieve) IRISH, WILLIAM Pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich. After-Dinner Story. TV movie, based on ss “It Had to Be Murder” in this collection: ABC/Hallmark, 1998, as Rear Window (scw: Eric Overmyer, Larry Gross; dir: Jeff Bleckner) Somebody on the Phone. The 1974 film La Pupa del gangster based on ss “Collared” in this collection was also released as Get Rita; as Gun Moll; as Lady of the Evening; as Oopsie Poopsie; as Poopsie; and as Sex Pot Waltz Into Darkness. Film: MGM, 2001, as Original Sin (scw & dir: Michael Cristofer)
Odd Craft. Film Our Relations, based on ss “The Money Box” in this collection: MGM, 1936 (scw: Felix Adler, Richard Connell, Jack Jevne, Charley Rogers; dir: Harry Lachman) JAMES, HENRY The Turn of the Screw. TV movie: NBC, 1959 (scw: James Costigan; dir: John Frankenheimer). Also: ABC, 1974 (scw: William F. Nolan; dir: Dan Curtis). Also [series episode]: Cannon, 1990 (scw & dir: Graeme Clifford). Also: CBS, 1995, as The Haunting of Helen Walker (scw: Hugh Whitemore; dir: Tom McLoughlin). Also: PBS, 1999 (scw: Nick Dear; dir: Ben Bolt) JAMES, P. D. The Black Tower. TV movie [6-part mini-series]: PBS, 1985 (scw: William Humble; dir: Ronald Wilson). SC: Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) Cover Her Face. TV movie [6-part mini-series]: ITV/PBS, 1985 (scw: Robin Chapman; dir: John Davies). SC: Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) Death of an Expert Witness. TV movie [7-part mini-series]: ITV/PBS, 1983 (scw: Robin Chapman; dir: Herbert Wise. SC: Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) Devices and Desires. TV movie [6-part mini-series]: Anglia/ITV, 1991 (scw: Thomas Ellice; dir: John Davies). SC: Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) Original Sin. TV movie [3-part mini-series]: ITV/PBS, 1996 (scw: Michael Chaplin; dir: Andrew Grieve). SC: Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden)
A Taste for Death. TV movie [6-part mini-series]: ITV, 1988 (scw: Alick Rowe, dir: John Davies). SC: Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. TV movie [3-part series episode] as An Unsuitable Job for a Woman: Sacrifice: Ecosse/PBS, 1997 (scw: William Humble; dir: Ben Bolt). SC: Cordelia Gray (Helen Baxendale) JAMES, PETER Alchemist. TV movie: Bedford, 1999, as The Alchemists (scw: Laura Lamson; dir: Peter Smith JAPRISOT, SÉBASTIAN A Very Long Engagement. Film: Warner, 2004, as Un long dimanche de fiançailles (scw: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant; dir: Jeunet) JOHNSON, DENIS -Jesus’ Son. Farrar, 1992; Faber pb, 1994 [novel consisting of linked ss]. Film: Lion’s Gate, 1999 (scw: Elizabeth Cuthrell, David Urrutia, Oren Moverman; dir: Alison Maclean) JOHNSON, E. RICHARD Mongo’s Back in Town. TV movie: Bob Banner, 1971 (scw: Herman Miller; dir: Marvin J. Chomsky) JOHNSTON, VELDA A Howling in the Woods. TV movie: Universal, 1971 (scw: Richard DeRoy; dir: Daniel Petrie) KASISCHKE, LAURA -Suspicious River. Film: Tartan, 2000 (scw & dir: Lynne Stopkewich) KATZENBACH, JOHN Hart’s War. Film: MGM, 2002 (scw: Billy Ray, Terry George; dir: Gregory Hoblit) KAYE, M. M. -The Far Pavilions. TV movie [3-part mini-series]: Goldcrest Films, 1984 (scw: Julian Bond; dir: Peter Duffell) KELLERMAN, JONATHAN When the Bough Breaks. TV movie: NBC, 1986 (scw: Phil Penningroth; dir: Waris Hussein). SC: Alex Delaware (Ted Danson) KEMELMAN, HARRY Friday the Rabbi Slept Late. TV movie: Hayday, 1976, as Lanigan’s Rabbi (scw: Don M. Mankiewicz, Gordon Cotler; dir: Lou Antonio). SC: Rabbi David Small (Stuart Margolin) KING, HAROLD Paradigm Red. TV movie: Jozak, 1977, as Red Alert (scw: Sandor Stern; dir: William Hale) KING, STEPHEN The Dead Zone. Film: Lion’s Gate, 2002 (scw: Michael Piller; dir: Robert Lieberman) Desperation. TV movie: ABC, 2006 (scw: Stephen King; dir: Mick Garris) Different Seasons. Film Apt Pupil, based on ss in this collection: TriStar, 1998 (scw: Brandon Boyce; dir: Bryan Singer). Film, based on ss “The Body” in this collection: Columbia, 1986, as Stand by Me (scw: Raymond Gideon, Bruce A. Evans; dir: Rob Reiner). Also: Film, based on ss “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption” in this collection: Columbia, 1994, as The Shawshank Redemption (scw & dir: Frank Darabont) [Note correction of ss title.]  Nightmares and Dreamscapes. Film The Night Flier, based on ss in this collection: New Line, 1997 (scw & dir: Mark Pavia). Also: Suffer the Little Children, based on ss in this collection: Suffer, 2006 (scw & dir: Bernardo Villela) Also: Film Umney’s Last Case, based on ss in this collection: Tisch School, 2006 (scw: Emma Heald, Rodney Altman; dir: Altman). [Note: At only 18 minutes in length, this may be the shortest film to be included in CFIV.] Skelton Crew. Film, one portion based on ss “The Raft” in this collection: New World, 1987, as Creepshow 2 (scw: Stephen King, George A. Romero; dir: Michael Gornick) -It. TV movie [2-part mini-series]: Warner, 1990 (scw: Lawrence D. Cohen, Tommy Lee Wallace; dir: Tommy Lee Wallace) -The Storm of the Century. TV movie [4-part mini-series]: ABC, 1999 (scw: Stephen King; dir: Craig R. Baxley) KINGSLEY, MICHAEL Shadow Over Elveron. TV movie: Universal, 1968 (scw: Chester Krumholz; dir: James Goldstone) KIPLING, RUDYARD Kim. Film: MGM, 1950 (scw: Helen Deutsch, Leon Gordon, Richard Schayer; dir: Victor Saville). TV movie: London Films, 1984 (scw: James Brabazon; dir: John Davies) KLAVAN, ANDREW Don’t Say a Word. Film: TCF, 2001 (scw: Anthony Peckham, Patrick Smith Kelly; dir: Gary Fleder)  Vanished. TV movie: Universal, 1971 (scw: Dean Riesner; dir: Buzz Kulik) KNOTT, FREDERICK Dial “M” for Murder. TV movie: Freyda Rothstein Productions, 1981 (scw: John Gay; dir: Boris Sagal) KOONTZ, DEAN R. Mr. Murder. Putnam, 1993; Headline, 1993. TV movie: ABC, 1998 (scw: Stephen Tolkin; dir: Dick Lowry) Sole Survivor. TV movie [four-hour mini-series] Fox, 2000 (scw: Richard Christian Matheson; dir: Mikael Salomon) KRICH, ROCHELLE MAJER Where’s Mommy Now? Film: Rysher, 1995, as Perfect Alibi (scw & dir: Kevin Meyer) LANGE, JOHN Pseudonym of Michael Crichton. Binary. TV movie: ABC, 1972, as Pursuit (scw: Robert Dozier; dir: Michael Crichton) LA PLANTE, LYNDA Bella Mafia. TV movie: CBS, 1997 (scw: Lynda La Plante; dir: David Greene) LEAR, PETER Pseudonym of Peter Lovesey. Goldengirl. Film: AVCO Embassy, 1979 (scw: John Kohn; dir: Joseph Sargent) LEATHER, STEPHEN The Bombmaker. TV movie: British Sky, 2001 (scw: Stephen Leather; dir: Graham Theakston) le CARRÉ, JOHN A Perfect Spy. TV movie [7-part mini-series]. BBC/PBS, 1987 (scw: Arthur Hopcraft;dir: Peter Smith) Smiley’s People. TV movie [6-part mini-series]. BBC, 1982 (scw: John Hopkins, John le Carré; dir: Simon Langton). SC: George Smiley (Alec Guinness) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. TV movie [7-part mini-series]. BBC/PBS, 1979 (scw: Arthur Hopcraft; dir: Francis Alcock, John Irwin). SC: George Smiley (Alec Guinness)  LE FANU, J. SHERIDAN In a Glass Darkly. Film, based on ss “Carmilla” in this collection: American International, 1963, as La Cripta e l’incubo, aka Carmilla; also released as: Catharsis; Crypt of Horror (UK); Karnstein; Terror in the Crypt (USA); The Crypt and the Nightmare; The Crypt of the Vampire; The Curse of the Karnsteins; The Karnstein Curse; and The Vampire’s Crypt (scw: Julian Berry, Jose Luis Monter, Robert Bohr, Tonino Valeri; dir: Thomas Miller). Also: Hammer, 1971, as Lust for a Vampire (scw: Tudor Gates; dir: Jimmy Sangster). Also: Scorpio, 1999, as Carmilla (scw: Jay Lind; dir: Jay Lind, Denise Templeton). TV movie [series episode]: Showtime, 1990, as Carmilla (scw: Jonathan Furst; dir: Gabrielle Beaumont) In a Glass Darkly. TV movie [series episode/Dow Hour of Great Mysteries], based on ss “The Room at the Dragon Volant” in this collection: NBC, 1960, as The Inn of the Flying Dragon (scw & dir: Sheldon Reynolds) LEHMAN, ERNEST The French Atlantic Affair. TV movie: Aaron Spelling, 1979 (scw & dir: Douglas Heyes) LEIMAS, BROOKE Pseudonym of Eva Freund, q.v. Add as a new author entry. The Intruder. Signet, 1980; Fontana, 1982. Film: GFT Kingsborough, 1999 (scw: Jamie Brown; dir: David Bailey)  The Lightship. Film: Castle Hill, 1985; also released as Killers at Sea (scw: Siegfried Lenz, William Mai, David Taylor; dir: Jerzy Skolimowski) LEONARD, ELMORE Be Cool. Film: MGM, 2005 (scw: Peter Steinfeld; dir: F. Gary Gray)
52 Pick-Up. Film: Cannon, 1984, as The Ambassador (scw: Ronald M. Cohen, Max Jack; dir: J. Lee Thompson) Glitz. TV movie: Lorimar, 1988 (scw: Stephen Zito; dir: Sandor Stern) Gold Coast. TV movie: Showtime, 1997 (scw: Harley Peyton; dir: Peter Weller) Split Images. TV movie: Turner, 1992 (scw: Pete Hamill, Vera Appleyard; dir: Sheldon Larry) -Touch. Film: United Artists, 1997 (scw & dir: Paul Schrader) LERMAN, JAQUELINE COLLINS. 1941- . See Jackie Collins. LEROUX, GASTON The Burgled Heart. Add the following note: At least the British edition also contains two ss: The Gold Axe / A Terrible Tale. The Phantom of the Opera. TV movie: ABC, 1983 (scw: Sharman Yellen; dir: Robert Markowitz). Also: ABC, 1990 (scw: Arthur Kopit; dir: Tony Richardson). Also: 1990 (scw: Bruce Falstein; dir: Darwin Knight) LEVIN, IRA Dr. Cook’s Garden. TV movie: Paramount, 1971 (scw: Art Wallace; dir: Ted Post) The Stepford Wives. Film: Paramount, 2004 (scw: Paul Rudnick; dir: Frank Oz) LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY The Monk. Film: Intercontinental, 1973, as Le Moine, aka The Monk (scw: Luis Brunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Adonis Kyrou; dir: Kyrou). Also: Celtic, 1990 (scw & dir: Francisco Lara Polop) LIEBERMAN, HERBERT Crawlspace. TV movie: Titus, 1972 (scw: Ernest Kinoy; dir: John Newland) LINDQUIST, DONALD Berlin Tunnel 21. TV movie: Cypress Point, 1981 (scw: John Gay; dir: Richard Michaels) LINDSAY, FREDERIC Jill Rips. TV movie: HBO, 2000, also released as Jill the Ripper; and as Tied Up (scw: Gareth Wardell, Kevin Bernhardt; dir: Anthony Hickox) LINK, WILLIAM & RICHARD LEVINSON Prescription: Murder. [3-act play] TV movie: Universal, 1968 (scw: Richard Levinson, William Link; dir: Richard Irving). SC: Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk)  The Apocalypse Watch. TV movie: Artisan, 1997 (scw: John Goldsmith, Chris Canaan; dir: Kevin O’Connor) The Bourne Identity. TV movie: Warner, 1988 (scw: Carol Sobieski; dir: Roger Young). SC: Jason Bourne (Richard Chamberlain) The Bourne Supremacy. Film: Universal, 2004 (scw: Tony Gilroy; dir: Paul Greengrass). SC: Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) The Hades Factor (with Gayle Lynds, q.v.). TV movie: CBS, 2006, as Covert One: The Hades Factor (scw: Elwood Reid; dir; Mick Jackson) The Rhinemann Exchange. TV movie [mini-series]: NBC, 1977 (scw: Richard Collins; dir: Burt Kennedy) LYNDS, GAYLE The Hades Factor (with Robert Ludlum, q.v.). TV movie: CBS, 2006, as Covert One: The Hades Factor (scw: Elwood Reid; dir; Mick Jackson) LYNN, MARGARET Stranger by Night. [US title: Mrs. Maitland’s Affair] TV movie: Universal, 1970, as The Other Man (scw: Eric Bercovici, Michael Blankfort; dir: Richard A Colla) McBAIN, ED Pseudonym of Evan Hunter (1926-2005) Ice. TV movie: Hearst, 1996 (scw: Larry Cohen; dir: Bradford May). SC: 87th Precinct: Det. Steve Carella (Dale Midkiff), Det. Meyer Meyer (Joe Pantoliano) & Det. Bert Kling (Paul Johannson) Lightning. TV movie: NBC, 1995 (scw: Daniel Levine, Mike Krohn; dir: Bruce Paltrow). SC: 87th Precinct: Det. Steve Carella (Randy Quaid), Det. Meyer Meyer (Ron Perkins) & Det. Bert Kling (Alex McArthur) Three Blind Mice. TV movie: Viacom, 2001 (scw: Anne Gerard, Adam Greenman; dir: Christopher Leitch) . SC: Matthew Hope (Brian Dennehy)  McCLURE, JAMES. 1939-2006. MacDONALD, JOHN D. Border Town Girl. TV movie Linda, based on novelette in this collection: ABC, 1973 (scw: Merwin Gerard; dir: Jack Smight). Also: USA Network, 1993; also released as Lust for Murder (scw: Nevin Schreiner; dir: Nathaniel Gutman) The Empty Copper Sea. TV movie: Hajeno, 1983, as Travis McGee (scw: Sterling Silliphant; dir: Andrew V. McLaglen). SC: Travis McGee (Sam Elliott) [and Gene Evans as Meyer]  MACDONALD, ROSS The Ferguson Affair. TV movie: ABC, 1992, as Criminal Behavior (scw: Wendell Mayes; dir: Michael Miller) The Underground Man. TV movie: NBC, 1974 (scw: Douglas Heyes; dir: Paul Wendkos). SC: Lew Archer (Peter Graves)
Asylum. Film: Paramount, 2004 (scw: Patrick Marber; dir: David Mackenzie) McHUGH, FRANCES Y(oulin) The Ghost Wore Black. Add U.K. edition: Linford pb, 1991 MacLAVERTY, BERNARD. 1942- . -Cal. Cape, 1983; Braziller, 1983 [Belfast] Film: Warner, 1984 (scw: Bernard MacLaverty; dir: Pat O’Connor) MacLEAN, ALISTAIR (Stuart) [Note that MacLean provided only the story outline for the first two of the novels following. See his Wikipedia entry and the listing for Alistair MacLean below for more details.] Alistair MacLean’s Death Train, by Alistair MacNeill, q.v. TV movie: British Lion/USA Pictures, 1993, as Death Train (scw & dir: David S. Jackson). SC: Mike Graham (Pierce Brosnan) [and Alexandra Paul as Sabrina Carver]. [Note: No story credit given to either MacNeill or MacLean.] Alistair MacLean’s The Hostage Tower, by John Denis, q.v. TV movie: CBS, 1980 (scw: Alistair MacLean, Robert Carrington; dir: Claudia Guzman). SC: Mike Graham (Peter Fonda) [and Maud Adams as Sabrina Carver]. [Note: Story credit for the film given to Alistair MacLean.] The Way to Dusty Death. TV movie: CBS, 1995 (scw: Paul Wheeler, Christopher Wicking; dir: Geoffrey Reeve)  M’LEVY, JAMES. Name usually given as JAMES McLEVY, a well-known detective in Scotland in the mid-1800s. ca.1801- . Approximate birth date added, plus show all stories in the collections below as dramatized true crime; see the (Revised) CFIV for contents. [It might also be noted that the author himself will soon be a character in a series of mystery novels written by David Ashton.] At War with Society; or, Tales of the Outcasts (Cameron, 1870, hc) Curiosities of Crime in Edinburgh (Kay, 1861, hc) Nimmo, 1861; Vickers, 1861. The Sliding Scale of Life; or, Thirty Years’ Observations of Falling Men and Women in Edinburgh (London: Houlston, 1861, hc) McMAHON, THOMAS PATRICK The Issue of the Bishop’s Blood. TV movie: Quinn Martin, 1975, as The Abduction of Saint Anne; also released as They’ve Kidnapped Anne Benedict (scw: Edward Hume; dir: Harry Falk) McNAMEE, EOIN Resurrection Man. Film: PolyGram, 1998 (scw: Eoin McNamee; dir: Marc Evans) MacNEILL, ALISTAIR (John) Add SC: Mike Graham in at least the following titles. Except for the one indicated, the extent of Alistair MacLean’s involvement has not yet been determined (q.v.). See also MacLean’s Wikipedia entry for more details. Alistair MacLean’s Code Breaker. Alistair MacLean’s Dead Halt. Alistair MacLean’s Death Train. [Based on a story outline by Alistair MacLean, q.v.] TV movie: British Lion/USA Pictures, 1993, as Death Train (scw & dir: David S. Jackson). SC: Mike Graham (Pierce Brosnan) [and Alexandra Paul as Sabrina Carver]. [Note: No story credit given to either MacNeill or MacLean.] Alistair MacLean’s Night Watch. Alistair MacLean’s Red Alert. Alistair MacLean’s Time of the Assassins. McSHANE, MARK The Passing of Evil. Film [The Grasshopper] also released as The Passing of Evil. MAILER, NORMAN The Executioner’s Song. TV movie: Lawrence Schiller, 1982 (scw: Norman Mailer; dir: Lawrence Schiller) MALMAR, McKNIGHT. 1903-1985. She was born in Albany NY and lived most of her life in Virginia. Her short story “The Storm,” Good Housekeeping, Feb 1944, is an often-anthologized ghost story. The story was first televised as an episode of the Boris Karloff series Thriller, 22 Jan 1962; then again as the TV movie The Victim (1972). Story credit in each instance was given to “MacIntoch Malmar.” Her three crime fiction novels are listed in the (Revised) CFIV. MARCHANT, CATHERINE Pseudonym of Catherine Cookson. House of Men. TV movie: Thames Television, 1977, as A House Full of Men (scw: Ray Jenkins, Catherine Marchant; dir: Piers Haggard) MARAINI, DACIA Voices. (Translation of “Voci.” Milan, 1994) Film: Factory, 2000, as Voci (scw: Serena Brugnolo, Alessio Cremonini, Franco Giraldi, Chiara Laudani; dir: Giraldi) MARTIN, JULIA WALLIS A Likeness in Stone. TV movie: BBC, 2000 (scw: Michael Crompton; dir: Charles Beeson) MARTINI, STEVE The Judge. TV movie: NBC, 2001 (scw: Christopher Lofton; dir: Mick Garris). SC: Paul Madriani (Chris Noth) Undue Influence. TV movie: Jaffe-Braunstein, 1996 (scw: Philip Rosenberg; dir: Bruce Pittman). SC: Paul Madriani (Brian Dennehy)  The Deceivers. Film: Merchant-Ivory, 1988 (scw: Michael Hirst; dir: Nicholas Meyer) MASTERSON, WHIT Joint pseudonym of Bill Miller & Robert Wade; the most well known among several other pen names is Wade Miller. The Death of Me Yet. TV movie: ABC, 1971 (scw: A. J. Russell; dir: John Llewellyn Moxey) MATHESON, RICHARD (BURTON) -Richard Matheson: Collected Stories. TV movie Duel, based on ss in this collection: Universal, 1971 (scw: Richard Matheson; dir: Steven Spielberg). Also: Dying Room Only, based on ss in this collection: Lorimar, 1973 (scw: Richard Matheson; dir: Philip Leacock). Also: based on ss “Trespass” in this collection: Lorimar, 1974, as The Stranger Within (scw: Richard Matheson; dir: Lee Philips) MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Ashenden. TV movie [4-part mini-series]: BBC, 1991 (scw & dir: Christopher Morahan) The Letter. TV movie: Hajeno Productions, 1982 (scw: Lawrence B. Marcus; dir: John Erman) MEZRICH, BEN Reaper. TV movie, as Fatal Error, aka Reaper: TBS, 1999 (scw: Rockne O’Bannon, Vincent Monton, Matt Dorff; dir: Armand Mastroianni) MICHAELS, BARBARA Pseudonym of Barbara Mertz; other pseudonym: Elizabeth Peters. Ammie, Come Home. TV movie: Aaron Spelling, 1970, as The House That Would Not Die (scw: Henry Farrell; dir: John Llewellyn Moxey). SC: Cheryl Cardoza (does not appear in movie under that name) MILLER, SUE -While I Was Gone. TV movie: CBS, 2004 (scw: Alan Sharp; dir: Mike Robe) MILLER, WADE Joint pseudonym of Bill Miller & Robert Wade. The Killer. TV movie: NBC, 1976, as The Manhunter (scw: Meyer Dolinsky; dir: Don Taylor) Kiss Her Goodbye. Film: Showcorporation, 1959 (scw: Alan Marcus; dir: Albert Lipton). [NOTE: No on-screen credit given to Wade Miller.] MINNEY, R(ubeigh) J(ames) 1895-1979. -Nothing to Lose. Macdonald, 1946. Film: Group W, 1952, as Time, Gentlemen, Please! (scw: Peter Blackmore; dir: Lewis Gilbert) MITCHELL, GLADYS Speedy Death. TV movie [series episode]: BBC/PBS, 1998 (scw: Simon Booker; dir: Audrey Cooke). SC: Mrs. (Dame) Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley (Diana Rigg)  MOGGACH, DEBORAH Seesaw. TV movie: Scottish Television, 1998 (scw: Deborah Moggach; dir: George Case) MOORE, ALAN Known primarily as the author of numerous comic books and graphic novels. From Hell. Film: TCF, 2001 (scw: Terry Hayes, Rafael Yglesias; dir: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes) MOORE, SUSANNA In the Cut. Film: Screen Gems, 2003 (scw: Jane Campion, Susanna Moore; dir: Campion) MORLAND, NIGEL A Gun for a God [published in US as Murder in Wardour Street]. Film: Grand National, 1940, as Mrs. Pym of Scotland Yard (scw: Peggy Barwell, Fred Ellis, Nigel Morland; dir: Ellis). SC: Mrs. Palmyra Pym (Mary Clare)  -A Dangerous Woman. Franklin, hc, 1991; Macmillan, UK, hc, 1991. Setting: Vermont. Film: Amblin, 1993 (scw: Naomi Foner; dir: Stephen Gyllenhaal) -Vanished. Viking, hc, 1988. Setting: Vermont. MORTIMER, JOHN -Summer’s Lease. TV movie [4-part mini-series]: BBC, 1989 (scw: John Mortimer; dir: Martyn Friend) MURPHY, GLORIA Down Will Come Baby. TV movie: CBS, 1999 (scw & dir: Gregory Goodell) NANCE, JOHN J. Pandora’s Clock. TV movie: NBC, 1996 (scw: David Israel; dir: Eric Laneuville) NATHANSON, E. M. -The Dirty Dozen. Random, 1965; Barker, 1966. Film: MGM, 1967 (scw: Nunnally Johnson; dir: Robert Aldrich) NORTH, HOWARD Pseudonym of Elleston Trevor. Expressway. TV movie: ABC, 1976, as Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (scw: Eugene Price, Robert Presnell, Jr.; dir: John Llewellyn Moxey) NUELLE, HELEN S. Land Where Our Fathers Died. Add U.K. edition: Linford pb, 1992 OATES, JOYCE CAROL -Heat and other stories. Dutton, 1991 ss [as follows]: The Boyfriend
-The Poisoned Kiss and other
stories from the Portuguese. Vanguard, 1975; Gollancz, 1976
ss [as follows]: The Buck Capital Punishment Craps The Crying Baby Death Valley Family Getting to Know All About You The Hair Heat Hostage House Hunting The Knife Ladies and Gentlemen Leila Lee Morning Naked Passion Shopping Sundays in Summer The Swimmers Twins White Trash Why Don’t You Come Live with Me It’s Time Yarrow The Brain of Dr. Vicente
-Upon the Sweeping Flood and
other stories. Vanguard, 1966; Gollancz, 1973 ss [as
below]. Film Norman and the Killer, based on ss in
this collection: American Film Institute, 1991 (scw: Lynn Thomas
Pierce; dir: Bob Graham)The Cruel Master Distance The Enchanted Piano Husband and Wife Impotence In a Public Place Journey The Letter Letters to Fernandes from a Young American Poet Loss Maimed The Murderer Our Lady of Easy Death of Alferce Parricide Plagiarized Material The Poisoned Kiss The Secret Mirror The Seduction The Son of God and His Sorrow Sunlight/Twilight Two Young Men Archways
At the Seminary The Death of Mrs. Sheer Dying First Views of the Enemy “The Man Who Turned Into a Statue” Norman and the Killer Stigmata The Survival of Childhood Upon the Sweeping Flood What Death with Love Should Have to Do O’CONNOR, ROBERT -Buffalo Soldiers. Film: Miramax, 2001 (scw: Eric Axel Weiss, Nora Maccoby, Gregor Jordan; dir: Jordan) ORCZY, BARONESS The Elusive Pimpernel. Film: United Artists, 1937, as Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (scw: Lajos Biro, Adrian Brunel, Arthur Wimperis; dir: Hans Schwarz). SC: Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel (Barry K. Barnes). TV movie [10-part mini-series]: BBC,1969 (scw: John Hawkesworth; dir: Gerald Blake). SC: Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel (Anton Rodgers) The Scarlet Pimpernel. TV movie: London, 1982 (scw: William Bast; dir: Clive Donner). SC: Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel (Anthony Andrews). Also [3-part mini-series]: A&E/BBC, 1999 (scw: Richard Carpenter; dir: Simon Langton, Patrick Lau, Graham Theakston). SC: Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel (Richard E. Grant)
And Hope to Die. SC: Philipa Lowe (correction) Double Take. No SC (correction) The Key to the Case. SC: Richard Patton (correction) PALMER, STUART Hildegarde Withers Makes the Scene (with FLETCHER FLORA). TV movie: ABC, 1972, as A Very Missing Person; also released as Hildegarde Withers (scw: Philip H. Reisman; dir: Russ Mayberry). SC: Hildegarde Withers (Eve Arden) [and James Gregory as Oscar Piper] PARETSKY, SARA Indemnity Only. Film: Buena Vista, 1991, as V. I. Warshawski (scw: Edward Taylor, David Aaron Cohen, Nick Thiel; dir: Jeff Kanew). SC: Victoria “V. I.” Warshawski (Kathleen Turner)  To Catch a King. TV movie: HBO, 1984 (scw: Roger O. Hirson; dir: Clive Donner) PATTERSON, JAMES Along Came a Spider. Film: Paramount, 2001 (scw: Marc Moss; dir: Lee Tamahori). SC: Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) -Virgin. TV movie: USA Networks, 1991, as Child of Darkness, Child of Light (scw: Brian Taggert; dir: Marina Sergenti) PECK, RICHARD. 1934- . Are You in the House Alone? Viking, 1976. TV movie: Charles Fries, 1978 (scw: Judith Parker; dir: Walter Grauman) PENNY, RUPERT. Pseudonym of Ernest Basil Charles Thornett, 1909-1970, q.v. Under this pen name, author of eight well-regarded detective novels listed in the (Revised) CFIV, of which at least two are locked room mysteries. (Add birth and death dates.) PERRY, ANNE The Cater Street Hangman. TV movie: A&E, 1998 (scw: T. R. Bowen; dir: Sarah Hellings). SC: Thomas Pitt (Eoin McCarthy) and Charlotte Ellison (Keeley Hawes)  The Devil’s Novice. TV movie [series episode]: ITV/PBS, 1996 (scw: Christopher Russell; dir: Herbert Wise). SC: Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) The Holy Thief. TV movie [series episode]: ITV/PBS, 1998 (scw: Russell Lewis, Paul Pender, Ben Rostul, Richard Stoneman; dir: Ken Grieve). SC: Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) The Leper of St. Giles. TV movie [series episode]: ITV/PBS, 1994 (scw: Simon Burke, Russell Lewis, Paul Pender, Ben Rostul, Richard Stoneman; dir: Graham Theakston). SC: Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) Monk’s Hood. TV movie [series episode]: ITV/PBS, 1994 (scw: Simon Burke; dir: Graham Theakston). SC: Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) A Morbid Taste in Bones. TV movie [series episode]: ITV/PBS, 1996 (scw: Simon Burke; dir: Graham Theakston). SC: Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) One Corpse Too Many. TV movie [series episode]: ITV/PBS, 1994 (scw: Simon Burke; dir: Graham Theakston). SC: Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) The Pilgrim of Hate. TV movie [series episode]: ITV/PBS, 1998 (scw: Russell Lewis, Paul Pender, Herbert Wise; dir: Malcolm Mowbray, Herbert Wise). SC: Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) The Potter’s Field. TV movie [series episode]: ITV/PBS, 1998 (scw: Christopher Russell, dir: Mary McMurray). SC: Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) The Raven in the Foregate. TV movie [series episode]: ITV/PBS, 1997 (scw: Russell Lewis, Paul Pender, Ben Rostul, Richard Stoneman; dir: Ken Grieve). SC: Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) The Rose Rent. TV movie [series episode]: ITV/PBS, 1998 (scw: Christopher Russell, dir: Richard Stroud). SC: Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) St. Peter’s Fair. TV movie [series episode]: ITV/PBS, 1997 (scw: Russell Lewis, Paul Pender, Ben Rostul, Richard Stoneman; dir: Herbert Wise). SC: Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) The Sanctuary Sparrow. TV movie [series episode]: ITV/PBS, 1994 (scw: Simon Burke; dir: Graham Theakston). SC: Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) The Virgin in the Ice. TV movie [series episode]: ITV/PBS, 1995 (scw: Simon Burke; dir: Malcolm Bowbray). SC: Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi)
-The Pact. TV movie: Lifetime, 2002 (scw: Will Scheffer; dir: Peter Werner) Plain Truth. TV movie: Lifetime, 2004 (scw: Matthew Tabak; dir: Paul Shapiro) POE, EDGAR ALLAN The Murders in the Rue Morgue. TV movie: Halmi/Vidmark, 1986 (scw: David Epstein; dir: Jeannot Szwarc). SC: Auguste Dupin (George C. Scott)  POPKIN, ZELDA A Death of Innocence. TV movie: Mark Carliner, 1971 (scw: Joseph Stefano; dir: Paul Wendkos) PORTER, DOROTHY The Monkey’s Mask. Film: Strand, 2000 (scw: Anne Kennedy; dir: Samantha Lang) PUIG, MANUEL The Buenos Aires Affair. Film: Block 2, 1997, as Cheun gwong tsa sit, aka Happy Together; also released as Buenos Aires Affair (scw & dir: Kar Wai Wong). [Note: No screen credit given to Manuel Puig.] PUZO, MARIO The Last Don. TV movie [mini-series]: Trimark, 1997 (scw: Joyce Eliason; dir: Graeme Clifford) PYE, MICHAEL Taking Lives. Film: Warner, 2004 (scw: Jon Bokenkamp; dir: D. J. Caruso) QUEEN, ELLERY Cat of Many Tails. TV movie: Universal, 1971, as Don’t Look Behind You (scw: Ted Leighton; dir: Barry Shear). SC: Ellery Queen (Peter Lawford) [and Harry Morgan as Inspector Richard Queen] The Fourth Side of the Triangle. TV movie: Fairmont, 1975, as Ellery Queen (scw: Richard Levinson, William Link; dir: David Greene). SC: Ellery Queen (Jim Hutton) [and David Wayne as Inspector Richard Queen]
Thick As Thieves. Film: October/Rogue, 1998 (scw: Scott Sanders, Arthur Krystal; dir: Sanders) RANKIN, IAN Black and Blue. TV movie [series episode]: Clerkenwell, 2000 (scw: Stuart Hepburn; dir: Martyn Friend). SC: Detective Inspector John Rebus (John Hannah) Dead Souls. TV movie [series episode]: ITV, 2001 (scw: Stuart Hepburn; dir: Maurice Phillips). SC: Detective Inspector John Rebus (John Hannah)  Mortal Causes. TV movie [series episode]: Clerkenwell/SMG, 2004 (scw: Mark Greig; dir: Dave Moore). SC: Detective Inspector John Rebus (John Hannah) READ, PIERS PAUL A Married Man. TV movie: London Weekend, 1984 (scw: Derek Marlowe; dir: Charles Jarrott) REDWOOD, ROSALINE. 1910-1998. [New entry.] Stranger from Shanghai. Hale, 1968; Ulverscroft pb, 1991 RENDELL, RUTH The Copper Peacock and other stories. TV movie An Unwanted Woman, based on ss in this collection: TVS, 1992 (scw: Rosemary Anne Sisson; dir: Jenny Wilkes) . SC: Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford (George Baker) [and Christopher Ravenscroft as Det. Insp. Mike Burden] The Fallen Curtain and other stories. TV movie The Fallen Curtain, based on ss in this collection: Blue Heaven, 1999 (scw: Douglas Livingstone; dir: Matthew Evans) The Fever Tree. TV movie A Case of Coincidence, based on ss in this collection: Carlton, 1996 (scw: Geoffrey Case; dir: Gavin Millar) Going Wrong. TV movie: Blue Heaven/Carlton, 1998 (scw: Julian Bond; dir: Matthew Evans) Harm Done. TV movie: Blue Heaven/Meridian, 2000 (scw: Christopher Russell; dir: Bruce MacDonald). SC: Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford (George Baker) [and Christopher Ravenscroft as Det. Insp. Mike Burden] Heartstones. TV movie: Blue Heaven/Meridian, 1996 (scw: Guy Meredith; dir: Piers Haggard) Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter. TV movie: TVS, 1992 (scw: Matthew Jacobs; dir: Mary McMurray). SC: Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford (George Baker) [and Christopher Ravenscroft as Det. Insp. Mike Burden] The Lake of Darkness. TV movie: Blue Heaven/Meridian, 1999 (scw & dir: Bruce MacDonald) The New Girl Friend and other stories. TV movie The Orchard Walls, based on ss in this collection: Blue Heaven, 1998 (scw: Jacqueline Holborough; dir: Gwennan Sage) Road Rage. TV movie: ITV, 1998 (scw: George Baker; dir: Bruce MacDonald). SC: Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford (George Baker) [and Christopher Ravenscroft as Det. Insp. Mike Burden]
Simisola. TV movie: ITV, 1996 (scw: Alan Plater; dir: Brian Parker). SC: Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford (George Baker) [and Christopher Ravenscroft as Det. Insp. Mike Burden] Talking to Strange Men. TV movie: Blue Heaven/TVS, 1992 (scw: Julian Bond; dir: John Gorrie) RHODES, EVAN H. The Prince of Central Park. TV movie: Lorimar, 1977 (scw: Jeb Rosebrook; dir: Harvey Hart) RICE, JEFF The Night Stalker. Novelization of TV movie, based on an unpublished story by Rice: ABC, 1972 (scw: Richard Matheson; dir: John Llewellyn Moxey). SC: Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) The Night Strangler. Novelization of TV movie, based on characters created by Rice: ABC, 1973 (scw: Richard Matheson; dir: Dan Curtis). SC: Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin)  ROBBINS, HAROLD -The Pirate. Simon, 1974; NEL, 1974 [Mid. East] TV movie: CBS,1978 (scw: Julius J. Epstein; dir: Ken Annakin) -Where Love Has Gone. Trident, 1962; Blond, 1964. Film: Paramount, 1964 (scw: John Michael Hayes; dir: Edward Dmytryk) ROBERTS, NORA Sanctuary. TV movie: CBS, 2001 (scw: Katt Shea, Vivienne Radkoff; dir: Shea) ROHMER, SAX The Mask of Fu Manchu. Film: Seven Arts, 1965, as The Face of Fu Manchu (scw: Peter Welbeck; dir: Don Sharp). SC: Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee), Sir Nayland Smith (Nigel Green) [and Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Petrie]
After the Trial. TV movie: Spelling/Goldberg, 1974, as Death Sentence (scw: John Neufeld; dir: E. W. Swackhamer) ROOS, KELLEY To Save His Life. TV movie: CBS, 1971, as Dead Men Tell No Tales (scw: Robert Dozier; dir: Walter Grauman) ROSENBERG, PHILIP Contract on Cherry Street. TV movie: Columbia, 1977 (scw: Edward Anhalt; dir: William A. Graham) Point Blank (with SUNNY GROSSO). TV movie: Roger Gimbel, 1982, as A Question of Honor (scw: Budd Schulberg; dir: Jud Taylor) RUELL, PATRICK Pseudonym of Reginald Hill. The Long Kill. TV movie: Universal, 1993, as The Last Hit (scw: Walter Klenhard, Alan Sharp; dir: Jan Egleson) RUNYON, DAMON Blue Plate Special. Film, based on ss “Little Miss Marker” in this collection: Universal International, 1962, as 40 Pounds of Trouble (scw: Marion Hargrove; dir: Norman Jewison). Also Little Miss Marker: Universal, 1980 (scw & dir: Walter Bernstein) Money from Home. Film Money from Home, based on ss in this collection: Paramount,1953 (scw: James Allardice, Hal Kanter; dir: George Marshall) [with Dean Martin as Herman “Honey Talk” Nelson and Jerry Lewis as Virgil Yokum] More Guys and Dolls. Film, based on ss “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown” in this collection: MGM, 1955, as Guys and Dolls (scw & dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) RUSSO, JOHN A. Midnight. Film also released as Backwoods Massacre. RYAN, JOHN FERGUS. 1931- . Ref: CA. -The Little Brothers of St. Mortimer. Delta pb, 1991; Black Swan pb, 1992 [South] Film: New City, 1999, as The White River Kid (scw: David Leland; dir: Arne Glimcher) SAMS, GIDEON. 1962-1989. The Punk. Polytantric Press pb (London), 1977 [Eng.] Film: M2, 1993; also released as The Punk and the Princess (scw & dir: Michael Sarne) SANGSTER, JIMMY Foreign Exchange. TV movie: Halsan, 1970 (scw: Jimmy Sangster; dir: Roy Baker). SC: John Smith (Robert Horton) [and Sebastian Cabot as Max] Private I. TV movie: ABC, 1969, as The Spy Killer (scw: Jimmy Sangster; dir: Roy Baker). SC: John Smith (Robert Horton) [and Sebastian Cabot as Max] SAPIR, RICHARD The Body. Film: Avalanche, 2001 (scw & dir: Jonas McCord) SAUL, JOHN Cry for the Strangers. TV movie: David Gerber, 1982 (scw: J. D. Feigelson; dir: Peter Medak) SAUL, OSCAR The Dark Side of Love. TV movie: Roger Gimbel, 1980, as My Kidnapper, My Love (scw: Louie Elias; dir: Sam Wanamaker) SAVAGE, TOM Valentine. Film: Warner, 2001 (scw: Donna Powers, Wayne Powers, Gretchen J. Berg, Aaron Herberts; dir: Jamie Blanks) SAYRE, JOEL. 1900-1979. -Rackety Rax. Knopf, 1932. Film: TCF, 1932 (scw: Lou Brewlow, Ben Markson; dir: Alfred L. Werker) SELBY, HUBERT -Last Exit to Brooklyn. Film: Cinecom, 1989 (scw: Desmond Nakano; dir: Uli Edel) SERGEANT, ADELINE Christine. Hurst, 1894 [Eng.] SERLING, ROBERT J. The President’s Plane Is Missing. TV movie: ABC, 1973 (scw: Ernest Kinoy, Mark Carliner; dir: Daryl Duke)  Field of Blood. TV movie: Hallmark/Showtime, 1997, as The Informant (scw: Nicholas Meyer; dir: Jim McBride) A Line in the Sand. TV movie: Anglia/Bedford, 2004 (scw: Gerald Seymour; dir: James Hawes) SEYMOUR, HENRY Infernal Idol. Film Harbour, 1973, as Craze; also released as The Infernal Idol and The Demon Master (scw: Aben Kandel, Herman Cohen; dir: Freddie Francis) SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLAS -The Dancer Upstairs. Film: Fox, 2002 (scw: Nicholas Shakespeare; dir: John Malkovich) SHARPE, TOM Wilt. Film: Goldwyn, 1989; also released as The Misadventures of Mr. Wilt (scw: Andrew Marshall, David Renwick; dir: Michael Tuchner). SC: Henry Wilt (Griff Rhys Jones) SHATNER, WILLIAM [Note: The books in the Tek series were ghost-written by Ron Goulart.] Teklab. TV movie: Universal Television, 1994 (scw: Chris Haddock, Westbrook Claridge; dir: Timothy Bond). SC: Jake Cardigan (Greg Evigan) Teklords. TV movie: Universal Television, 1994 (scw: Morgan Gendel, Westbrook Claridge, Alfonse Ruggiero; dir: George Bloomfield). SC: Jake Cardigan (Greg Evigan) Tekwar. TV movie: Universal Television, 1994 (scw: Westbrook Claridge, Alfonse Ruggiero; dir: William Shatner). SC: Jake Cardigan (Greg Evigan) SHELDON, SIDNEY If Tomorrow Comes. TV movie [mini-series]: CBS, 1986 (scw: Carmen Culver; dir: Jerry London) -Master of the Game. Morrow, 1982; Collins, 1983. TV movie [mini-series]: CBS, 1984 (scw: Alvin Boretz, John Nation, Paul Yurick; dir: Kevin Connor, Harvey Hart) Memories of Midnight. TV movie: CBS, 1991 (scw: Richard Hack, Michael Viner, Paul Wheeler; dir: Gary Nelson) Nothing Lasts Forever. TV movie: CBS, 1995 (scw: Gerald Di Pego; dir: Jack Bender) Rage of Angels. TV movie: NBC, 1983 (scw: Robert L. Joseph; dir: Buzz Kulik) The Sands of Time. TV movie: Warner Television, 1992 (scw: Richard Hack, Michael Viner; dir: Gary Nelson) -A Stranger in the Mirror. Morrow, 1976; Hodder, 1976 [L.A.] TV movie: CBS, 1993 (scw: Stirling Silliphant; dir: Charles Jarrott) Windmills of the Gods. TV movie: CBS, 1988 (scw: Sidney Sheldon; dir: Lee Philips) SHELLEY, MARY Frankenstein. TV movie: ABC, 1973 (scw: Dan Curtis, Sam Hall, Richard H. Landau; dir: Glenn Jordan). Also: NBC, 1973, as Frankenstein: The True Story (scw: Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy; dir: Jack Smight). Also: Showtime, 1984 (scw & dir: James Ormerod). Also: Turner, 1993 (scw & dir: David Wickes). Also [mini-series]: Hallmark, 2004 (scw: Mark Kruger; dir: Kevin Connor). Also: USA, 2004 (scw: John Shiban; dir: Marcus Nispel) SHREVE, ANITA -The Pilot’s Wife. TV movie: CBS, 2002 (scw: Anita Shreve, Christine Berardo; dir: Robert Markowitz) SIMENON, GEORGES. TV movie, based on the Maigret series: Columbia, 1988, as Maigret (scw: Arthur Weingarten; dir: Paul Lynch). SC: Jules Maigret (Richard Harris)  Maigret Sets a Trap. Film also released as: Woman-Bait. SC: Commissaire divisionnaire Jules Maigret (Jean Gavin) SIODMAK, CURT Hauser’s Memory. TV movie: Universal, 1970 (scw: Adrian Spies; dir: Boris Sagal) SLAUGHTER, FRANK G. -Doctors’ Wives. Doubleday, 1967; Hutchinson, 1968. Film: Columbia, 1971 (scw: Daniel Taradash; dir: George Schaefer) SMITH, MARTIN (Cruz) Gypsy in Amber. TV movie: Universal, 1975, as The Art of Crime (scw: Bill Davidson, Martin Smith; dir: Richard Irving). SC: Roman Grey (Ron Leibman) SMITH, RONALD L. Murder in the Skin Trade. SPI, pb, 1993 [NYC] SMITH, ROSAMOND Pseudonym of Joyce Carol Oates. -Lives of the Twins. TV movie: USA Network, 1991, as Lies of the Twins (scw: Mel Frohman, Walter Klenhard; dir: Tim Hunter) SMITH, WILBUR -Gold Mine. Heinemann, 1970; Doubleday, 1970 [S. Afr.] Film: Allied Artists, 1974, as Gold; also released as The Great Gold Conspiracy (scw: Wilbur Smith, Stanley Price; dir: Peter R. Hunt) -Shout at the Devil. Heinemann, 1968; Coward, 1968 [E. Africa] Film: American International, 1976 (scw: Stanley Price, Alastair Reed, Wilbur Smith; dir: Peter Hunt) SPICER, BART The Adversary. TV movie [mini-series]: Universal, 1977, as Aspen; also released as The Innocent and the Damned (scw & dir: Douglas Heyes). [Note: Movie also based in part on the non-criminous novel Aspen, by Burt Hirschfield.] SPILLANE, MICKEY. 1918-2006.  STADLEY, PAT(ricia) (Anna May Gough) (1917- 2003) [Corrected birth and death dates.] Autumn of a Hunter. TV movie: Four Star, 1971, as The Deadly Hunt (scw: Eric Bercovici, Jerry Ludwig; dir: John Newland) STANWOOD, DONALD The Memory of Eva Ryker. TV movie: Irwin Allen, 1980 (scw: Laurence Heath; dir: Walter Grauman) STARLING, BORIS Messiah. TV movie: BBC, 2001 (scw: Lizzie Mickery, Boris Starling; dir: Diarmuid Lawrence) STEEL, DANIELLE -Now and Forever. Dell, 1978; Joseph, 1978. Film: Interplanetary, 1983 (scw: Richard Cassidy; dir: Adrian Carr) Vanished. TV movie: NBC, 1995 (scw: Kathleen Rowell; dir: George Kaczender) STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Kidnapped. TV movie [13-part mini-series]: Harlech, 1979 (scw: Peter Graham Scott, Walter Ulbrich; dir: Jean-Pierre Decourt). Also: Betta, 1995 (scw: John Goldsmith, Michael Barlow, Rob Hedden; dir: Ivan Passer) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Film: Redfield Arts, 2002, as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (scw: Mark Redfield, Stuart Voytilla; dir: Mark Redfield). Also: Omega, 2003, as The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Rock ’n Roll Musical (scw: Alan Bernhoft, Robert Ricucci; dir: Andre Champagne). TV movie: ABC, 1968, as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (scw: Ian McLellan Hunter; dir: Charles Jarrott). Also: NBC, 1973, as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (scw: Sherman Yellen; dir: David Winters). Also: PBS, 1981, as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (scw & dir: Alastair Reid). Also [series episode]: Cannon, 1989 (scw: J. Michael Straczynski; dir: Michael Lindsay-Hogg). Also: London Weekend Television, 1990, as Jekyll & Hyde (scw & dir: David Wickes). Also: Telescene, 1999, as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (scw: Peter M. Lenkov; dir: Colin Budds). Also: Broadway Television, 2001, as Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical (scw: Leslie Bricusse, Frank Wildhorn; dir: Don Ray King). Also: Clerkenwell, 2002, as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (scw: Martyn Hesford; dir: Maurice Phillips) The Suicide Club. TV movie [series episode/The Chevy Mystery Show]: Revue, 1960 (scw: Norman Lessing). Also [series episode/Mystery and Imagination]: ITV, 1970 (scw: Robert Muller; dir: Mike Vardy). Also: ABC, 1973 (dir: Bill Glenn) STOKER, BRAM Dracula. TV movie [series episode/Mystery and Imagination]: ITV, 1968 (scw: Charles Graham; dir: Patrick Dromgoole). Also: Universal, 1973 (scw: Richard Matheson; dir: Dan Curtis) STONE, ROBERT -A Hall of Mirrors. Film: Paramount, 1970 as WUSA (scw: Robert Stone; dir: Stuart Rosenberg) STOUT, DAVID Carolina Skeletons. TV movie: NBC, 1991 (scw: Tracy Keenan Wynn; dir; John Erman) STOUT, REX The Doorbell Rang. TV movie: Paramount Television, 1977, as Nero Wolfe (scw & dir: Frank D. Gilroy). SC: Nero Wolfe (Thayer David) and Archie Goodman (Tom Mason) The Golden Spiders. TV movie: A&E, 2000 (scw: Paul Monash; dir: Bill Duke). SC: Nero Wolfe (Maury Chaykin) and Archie Goodwin (Tim Hutton).
STRAUB, PETER -Ghost Story. Coward, 1979; Cape, 1979 [N.Y.] Film: Universal, 1981 (scw: Lawrence D. Cohen; dir: John Irvin) STUART, IAN [Not the Ian Stuart who was a pseudonym of Alistair MacLean.] The Margin. Add U.K. edition: Linford pb, 1997 Master Plan. Add U.K. edition: Linford pb, 1997 SUKENICK, RONALD. 1932-2004. -Out. Swallow Press, 1973. Film: Cinema Group, 1982; also released as: Deadly Drifter (scw & dir: Eli Hollander) SWINDLE, HOWARD Jitter Joint. Film: Universal, 2002, as D-Tox; also released as Eye See You (scw: Ron L. Brinkerhoff; dir: Jim Gillespie) TAMMUZ, BENJAMIN Minotaur. Film: Columbia TriStar, 1997 (scw: Dan Turgeman, Irving S. White; dir: Jonathan Tammuz) TAVENER, MARK In the Red. TV movie: BBC, 1998 (scw: Malcolm Bradbury; dir: Marcus Mortimer) TAYLOR, DOMINI Mother Love. TV movie [4-part mini-series]: BBC, 1989 (scw: Andrew Davies; dir: Simon Langton)  Asking for It. TV movie: Dick Berg/Stonehenge, 1983, as An Invasion of Privacy (scw: Elaine Mueller; dir: Mel Damski) TEY, JOSEPHINE The Franchise Affair. TV movie: BBC, 1988 (scw: James Andrew Hall; dir: Leonard Lewis). SC: Insp. Alan Grant (John Vine) THAYER, TIFFANY One Woman. TV movie: Universal, 1966, as Fame Is the Name of the Game (scw: Ranald MacDougall; dir: Stuart Rosenberg) THEROUX, PAUL The London Embassy. TV movie [mini-series]: Thames, 1987 (scw: T. R. Bowen, Paul Theroux; dir: David Giles, Ronald Wilson) THOMAS, DONALD (SERRELL). 1934- . (birth date correction) THOMAS, ROBERT Trap for a Lonely Man. TV movie: ABC, 1969, as Honeymoon with a Stranger (scw: David P. Harmon, Henry Slesar; dir: John Peyser). Also: Spelling/Goldberg, 1976, as One of My Wives Is Missing (scw: Pierre Marton; dir: Glenn Jordan) THOMPSON, STEVEN L. Recovery. Film: Jadrian/TCA, 1988, as Honor Bound (scw: Aiken Woodruff; dir: Jeannot Szwarc) THOMPSON, THOMAS Celebrity. TV movie [mini-series]: NBC, 1984 (scw: William Hanley; dir: Paul Wendkos) THORNETT, ERNEST BASIL CHARLES. 1909-1970. Pseudonym: Rupert Penny, q.v. (Add birth and death dates.) THORP, RODERICK Devlin. TV movie: Viacom, 1992 (scw: David Taylor; dir: Rick Rosenthal) TOMLINSON, GERALD. 1933-2006. TREVOR, ELLESTON The Flight of the Phoenix. Film: TCF, 2004, as Flight of the Phoenix (scw: Lukas Heller, Scott Frank, Edward Burns; dir: John Moore) The Penthouse. TV movie: Turner, 1989 (scw: William Wood, Frank De Felitta; dir: David Greene) TRYON, THOMAS -Harvest Home. TV movie [mini-series]: Universal, 1978 as The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (scw: Jack Guss, Charles E. Israel, James M. Miller, Jennifer Miller; dir: Leo Penn) TYLER, ANNE Earthly Possessions. Knopf, 1977; Chatto, 1977. TV movie: HBO, 1999 (scw: Steven Rogers; dir: James Lapine) UHNAK, DOROTHY. 1930-2006. (Correcting birth year, adding death year.) The Bait. TV movie: ABC, 1973 (scw: Gordon Cotler, Don Mankiewicz; dir: Leonard Horn). SC: Christie Opara (Donna Mills as “Tracy Fleming”) False Witness. TV movie: 1989 (scw: Bill Driskill; dir: Arthur Allan Seidelman) The Investigation. TV movie: Universal, 1987, as Kojak: The Price of Justice (scw: Albert Ruben; dir: Alan Metzger). SC: Lt. Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) not in Uhnak’s novel. Law and Order. TV movie: NBC, 1976 (scw: E. Jack Neuman; dir: Marvin J. Chomsky) The Ledger. TV movie: Wolper, 1974, as Get Christie Love! (scw: George Kirgo; dir: William A. Graham). SC: Christie Opara (Teresa Graves as “Christie Love”)
Morality Play. Film: Paramount, 2003, as The Reckoning (scw: Mark Mills; dir: Paul McGuigan) VANCE, JOHN HOLBROOK Author better known as SF-Fantasy writer Jack Vance. Bad Ronald. TV movie: Lorimar, 1974 (scw: Andrew Peter Marin; dir: Buzz Kulik) van GULIK, ROBERT The Haunted Monastery. TV movie: ABC, 1974, as Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (scw: Nicholas Meyer; dir: Jeremy Paul Kagan). SC: Dee Jen-djieh, or Judge Dee (Khigh Dhiegh) WAINER, CORD. Pseudonym of Thomas B. Dewey, q.v. Mountain Girl. Gold Medal, 1952; Gold Medal (U.K.), 1957 WALLACE, (RICHARD HORATION) EDGAR Again, the Ringer. US title: The Ringer Returns. Add SC: Inspector Bliss The Fellowship of the Frog. Film: Rialto, 1959, as Der Frosch mit der Maske, aka Face of the Frog; also released as Fellowhip of the Frog (scw: Trygve Larsen, J. Joachim Bartsch; dir: Harald Reinl). SC: Det. Sgt. (Insp.) Elk (Joachim Fuchsberger, as amateur British sleuth “Richard Gordon”) The Gaunt Stranger. US title: The Ringer. Film: Rialto, 1964, as Der Hexer, aka The Mysterious Magician; also released as The Wizard and as The Ringer (scw: Harald G. Petersson, Herbert Reinecker; dir: Alfred Vohrer). SC: The Ringer (René Deltgen, as as Arthur Milton “Der Hexer”). Add SC: Inspector Bliss (Joachim Fuchsberger as “Inspector Bryan Edgar Higgins”) The India-Rubber Men. Film: Rialto, 1962, as Das Gasthaus an der Themse, aka The Inn on the River (scw: H. G. Petersson, Trygve Larsen, Piet Ter Ulen; dir: Alfred Vohrer) Kate Plus Ten. Silent film: Universal, 1919, as Wanted at Headquarters (scw: Wallace Clifton; dir: Stuart Paton). Show 1938 sound film as also released as Queen of Crime. SC: T. B. Smith not in either film under that name. The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder. Hodder, UK, hc, 1925. Correct US title to: The Murder Book of J. G. Reeder. The Murder Book of Mr. J. G. Reeder. Doubleday, US, hc, 1929. Correct to: The Murder Book of J. G. Reeder. This is the US edition of The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder, q.v. WALLER, ROBERT JAMES Puerto Vallarta Squeeze. Film: Showcase, 2003 (scw: Richard Alfieri; dir: Arthur Allan Seidelman) WALTERS, MINETTE The Dark Room. TV movie: BBC, 1999 (scw: Niall Leonard; dir: Graham Theakston) The Echo. TV movie: BBC, 1998 (scw: Kevin Hood; dir: Diarmuid Lawrence) The Ice House. TV movie [two-part mini-series] BBC/PBS, 1997 (scw: Lizzie Mickery; dir: Tim Fywell) The Scold’s Bridle. TV movie [two parts]: BBC, 1998 (scw: Tony Bicat; dir: David Thacker)  WAMBAUGH, JOSEPH The Blue Knight. TV movie: Lorimar, 1973 (scw: E. Jack Neuman; dir: Robert Butler). Also: CBS, 1975 (scw: Albert Ruben; dir: J. Lee Thompson) Fugitive Nights. TV movie: Columbia, 1993 (scw: Joseph Wambaugh; dir: Gary Nelson) WATSON, COLIN Lonelyheart 4122. TV movie: Lorimar, 1972, as The Crooked Hearts (scw: A. J. Russell; dir: Jay Sandrich). SC: Insp. Walter Purbright, not in movie. WATSON, E. L. GRANT -The Nun and the Bandit. Cresset, 1935; Smith & Durrell, 1941. Film: Victoria, 1992 (scw & dir: Paul Cox) WELLMAN, A(ndrew) M. 1968- . -S .F. W. Random, 1991. Film: Gramercy, 1994 (scw: Jefery Levy, Danny Rubin; dir: Levy) WELLS, H. G. -The Invisible Man. TV movie: Silverton, 1975 (scw: Harve Bennett, Steven Bochco; dir: Robert Michael Lewis). Also: Universal, 1976, as Gemini Man (scw: Leslie Stevens; dir: Alan J. Levi). Also: BBC/A&E, 1984 (scw: James Andrew Hall; dir: Brian Lighthill). Also [pilot episode for series]: Sci-Fi Channel, 2000 (scw: Matt Greenberg; dir: Breck Eisner) WELSH, IRVINE -Trainspotting. Film: Miramar, 1996 (scw: John Hodge; dir: Danny Boyle) WERLIN, MARK and MARVIN The Face. TV movie: NBC, 1996, as A Face to Die For (scw: Duane Poole; dir; Jack Bender) WESTERMANN, JOHN Exit Wounds. Film: Warner, 2001 (scw: Ed Horowitz, Richard D’Ovidio; dir: Andrzej Bartkowiak) WESTLAKE, DONALD E. Enough! TV movie, based on “A Travesty,” a novelette in this collection: Turner, 1999, as A Slight Case of Murder (scw: William H. Macy, Steven Schacter; dir: Schacter) Jimmy the Kid. Film: Buena Vista, 1999 (scw: Martin Rauhaus, Peter Wohlgemuth; dir: Wolfgang Dickmann) What’s the Worst That Could Happen? Film: MGM, 2001 (scw: Matthew Chapman; dir: Sam Weisman). SC: John Dortmunder (??-Martin Lawrence as “Kevin Caffrey”)  Poor, Poor Ophelia. TV movie: Quinn Martin, 1972, as The Streets of San Francisco (scw: Edward Hume; dir: Walter Grauman). SC: Casey Kellog (Michael Douglas as “Insp. Steve Keller”) and Al Krug (Karl Malden as “Lt. Mike Stone”)  Griff. Novelization of TV movie: Universal, 1975, as Man on the Outside (scw: Larry Cohen; dir: Boris Sagal) Spectre. Novelization of TV movie: Norway Productions, 1977 (scw: Gene Roddenberry, Samuel A. Peeples; dir: Clive Donner) WHEELER, FRANCIS. Delete F. L. Wheeler as an author and see Francis L(eslie) Wheeler. [Two authors given separate entries in the (Revised) CFIV are one and the same.] WHEELER, FRANCIS L(ESLIE). [This is now the complete corrected entry.] The Inn on the Frontier. Skeffington, 1952, hc, as by Francis Wheeler. The Man Who Was Afraid. Skeffington, 1949, hc. (Byline correction.) Sylvanian Adventure. Hurst, 1939, hc. (Byline correction) Unholy Alliance. Skeffington, 1951, hc, as by Francis Wheeler [London] (Add title.) WEYMAN, STANLEY J. Under the Red Robe. [1630] WHITE, ETHEL LINA Some Must Watch. TV movie: Fox, 2000, as The Spiral Staircase (scw: Mel Dinelli & Matt Dorff; dir: James Head) WHITE, GILL(IAN) The Beggar Bride, as by Gillian White. TV movie: BBC, 1997 (scw: Lizzie Mickery; dir: Diarmuid Lawrence) Rich Deceiver. TV movie: BBC, 1995 (scw: Laura Lamson; dir: Gurinder Chadha) The Sleeper, as by Gillian White. TV movie: BBC, 2000 (scw: Gwyneth Hughes; dir: Stuart Orme) WHITE, ROBB, III A Navy ensign in WWII, a construction engineer, and a scriptwriter for the “Perry Mason” TV series. Deathwatch. Doubleday, 1972 [West] TV movie: Spelling/Goldberg, 1974, as Savages (scw: William Wood; dir: Lee H. Katzin) WHITE, TERENCE DE VERE Chat Show. Gollancz, 1987 [Dublin] Mr. Stephen. Gollancz, 1978 [Dublin] WHITE, TERI Triangle. Film: MIHK, 1994, as Regarde les hommes tomber, aka See How They Fall (scw & dir: Jacques Audiard) WILDER, ROBERT Flamingo Road. TV movie: Lorimar, 1980 (scw: Rita Lakin; dir: Gus Trikonis) WILLIAMS, BEN AMES Leave Her to Heaven. TV movie: NBC, 1988, as Too Good to Be True (scw: Timothy Bradshaw; dir: Christian Nyby) WILLIAMS, DAVID (L.) Second Sight. TV movie: Joe Wizan, 1979, as The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (scw & dir: Frank De Felitta) WILLIAMS, NIGEL The Wimbledon Poisoner. TV movie: BBC, 1994 (scw: Nigel Williams; dir: Robert W. Young) WILSON, BARBARA (Ellen) [In 2001, the author changed her name to Barbara Sjoholm.] Gaudi Afternoon. Film: First Look, 2001 (scw: James Myhre; dir: Susan Seidelman). SC: Cassandra Reilly (Judy Davis) WODEHOUSE, P. G. Piccadilly Jim. Film: Universal, 2004 (scw: Julian Fellowes; dir: John McKay) WOOD, MRS. HENRY [i.e., Ellen Price Wood] East Lynne. TV movie: BBC, 1982 (scw & dir: David Green) WOODS, STUART Chiefs. TV movie [mini-series]: Highgate, 1983 (scw: Robert W. Lenski; dir: Jerry London) WOLZIEN, VALERIE Murder at the PTA Luncheon. TV movie: CBS, 1990, as Menu for Murder (scw: Duane Poole, Tom Swale; dir: Larry Peerce). SC: Susan Henshaw (Julia Duffy)  The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich. TV movie I’m Dangerous Tonight, based on ss in this collection: USA Network, 1990 (Bruce Lansbury, Philip John Taylor; dir: Tobe Hooper) Nightwebs. TV movie You’ll Never See Me Again, based on ss in this collection: ABC, 1973 (scw: Gerald Di Pego, William Wood; dir: Jeannot Szwarc)
The Point of Murder. TV movie: ABC/Buena Vista, 1993, as Kiss of a Killer (scw: David Warfield; dir: Larry Elikann) YURICK, SOL Fertig. TV movie: New City, 1999, as The Confession (scw: David Black; dir: David Hugh Jones) ZACKEL, FRED Cocaine and Blue Eyes. TV movie: Orenthal, 1983 (scw: Kendall J. Blair; dir: E. W. Swackhamer). SC: PI Michael Brennan (O. J. Simpson) ZOLA, EMILE The Monomaniac. Hutchinson, 1901. U.S. title: The Human Beast. Julian (Newark), 1932. Also published as: The Beast in Man. Elek, 1956. (Translation of “La Bête Humaine.” 1890.) Film: Juno, 1938, as La Bête Humaine, aka The Human Beast; also released as Judas Was a Woman (scw & dir: Jean Renoir). Also: Columbia, 1954, as Human Desire (scw: Alfred Hayes; dir: Fritz Lang) YOUR COMMENTS ARE WELCOME: Copyright © 2006 by
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