A recent anthology I picked up is The Mammoth Book of Movie Detectives
and Screen Crimes, edited by Peter Haining. A mixed bag, but it does
include Woolrich's It Had to Be Murder (aka Rear Window) and a few
other interesting items. I found it infuriating that the documentation
does not explain where the stuff really came from, whether the Little
Caesar "story" is a excerpt from the novel or a sketch for the movie
script or what, and the same for various stories that were made into
movies. I paid 50 cents for this at a yard sale, but had I paid full
price I would not be so happy. If I see the names Penzler, Gorman,
Greenberg, Weinberg or Pronzini on an anthology, I usually buy it
sight unseen. Not so with Haining. I don't like sloppy jobs.
Best
mrt
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