![]() ![]() He changed several occupations while also contributing short stories and novellas to various newspapers and magazines. His studies prepared him for a career in commerce, but he had been passionate about detective fiction since childhood. Pierre Louis Boileau was born on 28 April 1906 in Paris, the son of Léon and Maria Boileau (n ée Guillaud). Their works were adapted into numerous films, most notably, Les Diaboliques (1955), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Vertigo (1958), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. They are noted for the ingenuity of their plots and the skillful evocation of the mood of disorientation and fear. They are credited with having helped to form an authentically French subgenre of crime fiction with the emphasis on local settings and mounting psychological suspense. Their successful collaboration produced 43 novels, 100 short stories and 4 plays. Boileau-Narcejac is the pen name used by the prolific French crime-writing duo of Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906 – 16 January 1989) and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac (3 July 1908 – 7 June 1998). ![]()
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