Boileau-Narcejac

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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).

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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.