A Man About a Dog

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A Man About a Dog
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First edition
Author Alec Coppel
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Thriller
Publisher Harrap
Publication date
 1947
Media type Print

A Man About a Dog is a 1947 thriller novel by the British-Australian writer Alec Coppel.[1] Driven to distraction by his wife's repeated affairs, her husband decides to kidnap her latest lover and commit the perfect murder, only to be thwarted by a dog.

Adaptations

In 1949 it was adapted into the British film Obsession directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Robert Newton, Sally Gray and Naunton Wayne. Coppel himself wrote the screenplay.[2] Coppel also wrote a stage play under the original title A Man About a Dog which ran in the West End for 23 performances at the Princes Theatre in 1949.

References

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Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Keaney, Michael F. British Film Noir Guide. McFarland, 2008.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.


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  1. ↑ Reilly p.352
  2. ↑ Goble p.94
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