#Alfred hitchcock death series#

HA DeRosso's 'Revenge is Bitter-Sweet' is another highlight: a heart-broken man blackmails his former love, until he makes a startling discovery about where the blackmail information is coming from. In the very short 'To Avoid a Scandal' by Talmage Powell, a 'well-bred' fellow plots the murder of his ill-bred new wife. In 'Murder and Lonely Hearts', well, imagine The Pina Colada Song, except with murderous and tragic consequences. It's great to see Helen Nielson in this collection, as she's an under-appreciated writer of the era. In 'Beware: Dangerous Man' a woman tries to clear her husband's name of a hit-and-run murder charge by by investigating the neighbor who's accused him. CB Gilford is another solid writer who appears in a lot of these anthologies. Henry Slesar's 'Ruby Martinson, Ex-Con' is a laugh-out loud funny story about a pair of would-be thieves who screw up horribly.

#Alfred hitchcock death series#

'Year End Clearance' by Mary Lin Roby has a lawman trying to convince a mortician to stop running a sale because it seems it's sparked a series of murders in town.

It starts strong with 'Dying a Thousand Deaths' by the always great Hal Ellson- a guy in Mexico waiting to finish a drug deal loses the money gambling and tries to plot his way out of the jam. Henry Slesar's 'Ruby A really excellent collection, this one, containing stories dating between 19, culled from the pages of AHMM. Stop Killing Me: By Hal Dresner.moreĪ really excellent collection, this one, containing stories dating between 19, culled from the pages of AHMM. Schedule For An Assassination: By Robert Edmond Alter.ġ4. Horse-Collar Homicide: By Arthur Porges.ġ1. The Tenth Part Of A Million: By Robert Colby.ġ0. Hospitality Most Serene: By Jack Ritchie.ĩ. Murder And Lonely Hearts: By Helen Nielsen.Ħ. Ruby Martinson, Ex-Con: By Henry Slesar.Ĥ. Dying A Thousand Deaths: By Hal Ellson.Ģ. Hospitality Most Serene: By Jack Ritchie. Murder And Lonely Hearts: By Helen Nielsen. Among the films he directed were : Rebecca, Psycho, Spellbound, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, The Thirty-Nine Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Foreign Correspondent, The Paradine Case, Dial M for Murder, North by Northwest, Rear Window and The Birds.CONTENTS 1. He entered the film industry in 1929 as a writer. Told by the British Consul General that he was 'Sir Alfred from now on', he said, with a typical touch of Hitchcock humour: 'I'm sorry I didn't have my army with me today'. When he died, Sir Alfred was working on a film dealing with George Blake, the British spy, to be called The Short Night.Ī naturalized citizen of the United States, Sir Alfred received his knighthood in a ceremony on a Hollywood studio set in January. The director, who was born in Leytonstone, Essex, had a heart pacemaker and had suffered painful bouts of arthritis in recent years, causing him to use a wheelchair or crutches. Sir Alfred recently spent several days at a medical centre in Hollywood for tests. The cause of his death was not disclosed. Sir Alfred Hitchcock, whose films thrilled and terrified audiences for more than half a century, died today at the age of 80.

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