Pierre Boileau
Pierre Boileau (born April 28, 1906 in Paris , † January 16, 1989 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer ) was a French author of crime novels .
Life
After studying at the commercial college, Pierre Boileau worked as a social worker. On the side he wrote detective novels about the master detective André Brunel.
When Boileau met Thomas Narcejac after the war , they devoted themselves to writing psychological detective novels and became masters of their craft. After her novel Celle qui n'était plus (1952), Henri-Georges Clouzot made the film Die Teuflischen , D'entre les morts (1954) served as a template for Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo - From the Realm of the Dead .
Works (selection)
- Detective novels written by Boileau alone
- Decision in the cliffs ( La Pierre qui tremble , 1934)
- Bacchus at rest / The trick with daVinci ( Le Repos de Bacchus , 1938)
- La Promenade de minuit (1938)
- Six times fatal ( Six crimes sans assassin , 1939)
- Les Trois Clochards (1945)
- Les Rendez-vous de Passy (1951)
- L'assassin vient les mains vides (1951)
- Crime novels by Boileau-Narcejac
- Dead should be silent ( Celle qui n'était plus , 1952)
- Faces of the shadow ( Les visages d'ombre , 1953)
- Risen from the dead (new edition: Vertigo - From the realm of the dead) ( D'entre les morts , 1954)
- I am someone else: the wolf women ( Les louves , 1955)
- Murder at 45 tours ( À cœur perdu , 1959)
- The secret of the yellow cheetah ( Maléfices , 1961)
- The cards are wrong ( Maldonne , Èditions Denoël, Paris 1962), Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1965, ISBN 3-499-42786-9 .
- Man on installments ( Et mon tout est un homme , 1965)
- Perfume for a suicidal woman ( La mort a dit peut-être , 1967)
- Apartment for a suicide ( La porte du large , 1969)
- Life a Nightmare ( La Vie en miettes , 1972)
- When a dead person lives with two men ( La tenaille , 1975)
- On the siding ( Carte Vermeil , 1979)
- The untouchables ( Les intouchables , 1980)
- Werther's second suicide ( Box office , 1981)
- Without a trace ( Les eaux dormantes , 1983)
- The dream of gold ( Le soleil dans la main , 1990)
- La main passe 1991
- Les nocturnes 1992
- Nonfiction book together with Thomas Narcejac
- The detective novel ( Le roman policier , 1964)
Film adaptations
see Thomas Narcejac
Awards
- 1938: Prix du Roman d'Aventures for The resting Bacchus ( Le Repos de Bacchus )
- 1974: Prix Mystère de la critique (together with Thomas Narcejac) for The Secret of Eunerville ( Le Secret d'Eunerville )
Web links
- Literature by and about Pierre Boileau in the catalog of the German National Library
- Pierre Boileau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Information on Pierre Boileau in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Boileau, Pierre |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1906 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1989 |
Place of death | Beaulieu-sur-Mer |