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 .