Favourite films based on GAD stories

The Bat (Roland West, 1926) -- Mary Roberts Rinehart

Miss Pinkerton (Lloyd Bacon, 1932) -- Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Penguin Pool Murder (George Archainbaud, 1932) -- Stuart Palmer

The Plot Thickens (Ben Holmes, 1936) -- Stuart Palmer

Two in the Dark (Benjamin Stoloff, 1936) -- Gelett Burgess

The Patient in Room 18 (Bobby Connolly, Crane Wilbur, 1938) -- Mignon G. Eberhart

The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938) -- Ethel Lina White

The Case of the Black Parrot (Noel M. Smith, 1941) -- Burton Stevenson

I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1941) -- Steve Fisher

Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang, 1943) -- Graham Greene

A Night to Remember (Richard Wallace, 1943) -- Kelley Roos

Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak, 1944) -- Cornell Woolrich

Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944) -- Vera Caspary

The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak, 1946) -- Ethel Lina White

Crack-Up (Irving Reis, 1946) -- Fredric Brown

Secret Beyond The Door (Fritz Lang, 1948) -- Rufus King

The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1948) -- Sherwood King

Intruder in the Dust (Clarence Brown, 1949) -- William Faulkner

Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock, 1950) -- Selwyn Jepson

The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang, 1953) -- Vera Caspary

Dangerous Crossing (Joseph M. Newman, 1953) -- John Dickson Carr

Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) -- Mickey Spillane

23 Paces to Baker Street (Henry Hathaway, 1956) -- Philip MacDonald

Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) -- Wade Miller

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) -- Boileau and Narcejac

Witness For the Prosecution (Billy Wilder, 1958) -- Agatha Christie

The Burning Court (Julien Duvivier, 1962) -- John Dickson Carr

High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963) -- Ed McBain

Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger, 1965) -- Evelyn Piper

The Spider's Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) -- Jorge Luis Borges

How Awful About Allan (Curtis Harrington, 1970) -- Henry Farrell

Ten Days Wonder (Claude Chabrol, 1971) -- Ellery Queen

The Nine Tailors (Raymond Menmuir, 1974) -- Dorothy L. Sayers

Judge Dee in the Monastery Murders (Jeremy Kagan, 1974) -- Robert van Gulik

Ellery Queen: The Mad Tea Party (James Sheldon, 1975) -- Ellery Queen

Colour Scheme (Arthur Thompson, 1977) -- Ngaio Marsh

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (Tony Wharmby, John Davies, 1980) -- Agatha Christie

Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (Christopher Lewis, 1990) -- Robert Leslie Bellem

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