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Boileau-Narcejac is the name by which Pierre Boileau (Paris, 28 April 1906 - Beaulieu-sur-Mer, 1989) and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac (Rochefort-sur-Mer, 3 July 1908 - Nice, 1998) wrote. They were French writers of police stories, some of which became films by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Alfred Hitchcock.
Individually they were each winners of the prestigious Prix du Roman d'Aventures awarded each year to the best example of detective fiction, French or foreign: Boileau for Le Repos de Bacchus in 1938 and Narcejac for La Mort est du Voyage in 1948, each a locked-room mystery. They met on the occasion of the award dinner for Narcejac in 1948, to which Boileau - as a prior winner - had been invited. Their collaboration began shortly thereafter, with Boileau providing the plots and Narcejac the atmosphere and characterisations, not unlike Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee (Ellery Queen).
Bibliography
- 1952 - Celle qui n'était plus; English translation: The Woman Who Was (1954)
- 1952 - Les Visages de l'ombre; English translation: Faces in the Dark (1955)
- 1954 - D'entre les morts; English translation: The Living and the Dead (1956), also published as Vertigo
- 1956 - Les louves; English translation: The Prisoner (1957)
- 1956 - Le mauvais oeil; English translation: The Evil Eye (1959)
- 1956 - Au bois dormant; English translation: Sleeping Beauty (1959)
- 1957 - Les magiciennes
- 1958 - L'ingénieur aimait trop les chiffres; English translation: The Tube (1960)
- 1959 - À cœur perdu; English translation: Heart to Heart (1959)
- 1961 - Maléfices; English translation: Spells of Evil (1961)
- 1962 - Maldonne
- 1964 - Les victimes; English translation: Who Was Clare Jallu? (1965), also published as The Victims
- 1965 - Le train bleu s'arrête treize fois (short stories)
- 1965 - Et mon tout est un homme; English translation: Choice Cuts (1966)
- 1978 - Carte vermeil
- 1980 - Les intouchables
- 1990 - Le soleil dans la main
- 1991 - La main passe
- 1992 - Les nocturnes
There are a couple of books in a series named "Sans Atout" in French. The books however are aimed at younger readers and relate the adventure of a young boy with detective and deduction skills.
- Les pistolets de Sans Atout
- Sans Atout contre l'homme à la dague
- Sans Atout et le cheval fantôme
- Sans Atout, une étrange disparition
- Sans Atout, l'invisible agresseur
- Sans Atout, la vengeance de la mouche
- Sans Atout dans la gueule du loup
- Sans Atout, le cadavre fait le mort
Adaptations
- 1955 - Les Diaboliques, France, directed by by Clouzot (novel Celle qui n'était plus)
- 1958 - Vertigo, USA, directed by Hitchcock (novel D'entre les morts)
