Boileau-Narcejac

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

* "Celle qui n'était plus" (1952), adapted in 1955 by Clouzot, as "Les Diaboliques"
* "D'entre les morts" (1954), adapted in 1958 by Hitchcock, as "Vertigo"
* "Les louves" (1956)
* "Les Magiciennes" (1957)
* "L'Ingenieur Aimait Trop les Chiffres" (1958)
* "... Et mon tout est un homme" (1965)
* "Carte vermeil" (1978)
* "Les intouchables" (1980)
* "Le soleil dans la main" (1990)
* "La main passe" (1991)
* "Les nocturnes" (1992)The last three books were the work of Narcejac working alone.

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"

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