The Big Book of Reel Murders: Stories That Inspired Great Crime Films (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525563884)

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.

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 Secret Agent; Robert Louis Stevenson's horrifying tale that was later turned into the iconic movie The Body Snatcher, 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 The Wild One.

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.

Author: Otto Penzler
ISBN-10: 0525563881
ISBN-13: 9780525563884
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2019
Pages: 1200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.82lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.90w x 2.10d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 09/23/2019