Hitchcock: The Books that Inspired His Films

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Ashenden (The Secret Agent)  by W. Somerset Maugham

Before the Fact (Suspicion) by Francis Iles

 The Birds by Daphne du Maurier

Dial “M” for Murder  A play by Frederick Knott

Easy Virtue By Noel Coward

Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square (Frenzy) by Arthur La Bern

The House of Dr. Edwardes (Spellbound) by Francis Beeding

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

The Lady Vanishes by Ethel Lina White

The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes

The Manxman by Hall Caine

Marnie by Winston Graham

Personal History  (Foreign Correspondent) By Vincent Sheean

Psycho by Robert Bloch

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Rainbird Pattern  (Family Plot) by Victor Canning

Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Rope: A Play by Patrick Hamilton

The Secret Agent  (Sabotage) by Joseph Conrad

A Shilling for Candles (Young and Innocent) by Josephine Tey

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

The 39 Steps (1st book of Richard Hannay series) by John Buchan

To Catch A Thief by David Dodge

Topaz by Leon Uris

The Trouble with Harry by Jack Trevor Story

Under Capricorn by Helen de Guerry Simpson

Vertigo by Boileau-Narcejac