Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Double Indemnity (1944, 1954 [TV], 1960 [TV], 1973 [TV]), and Body Heat (1981) -- 2 Murder, My Sweet (1944) and Farewell, My Lovely (1975) -- 3 Detour (1945, 1992) -- 4 The Big Sleep (1945/ 1946, 1978) -- 5 Notorious (1946, 1992 [TV]) -- 6 The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946, 1981) -- 7 The Killers (1946, 1964) -- 8 Somewhere in the Night (1946) and The Crooked Way (1949) -- 9 Body and Soul (1947, 1981, 1998 [TV]) -- 10 Dark Passage (1947) and Johnny Handsome (1989) -- 11 Kiss of Death (1947, 1995) and The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958) -- 12 Out of the Past (1947) and Against All Odds (1984) -- 13 Ride the Pink Horse (1947) and The Hanged Man (1964 [TV]) -- 14 The Big Clock (1948) and No Way Out (1987) -- 15 They Live by Night (1948) and Thieves Like Us (1974) -- 16 Criss Cross (1949) and The Underneath (1995) -- 17 Gun Crazy (1949) and Guncrazy (1992) -- 18 House of Strangers (1949) and Broken Lance (1954) -- 19 The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Badlanders (1958), Cairo (1963), and Cool Breeze (1972) -- 20 DK OK A . (1950, 1988) and Color Me Dead (1969) -- 21 Night and the City (1950, 1992) -- 22 No Man of Her Own (1950), I Married a Shadow (1982), While You Were Sleeping (1995), and MrsK Winterbourne (1996) -- 23 The Prowler (1951) and Unlawful Entry (1992) -- 24 The Narrow Margin (1952) and Narrow Margin (1990) -- 25 The Blue Gardenia (1953) and The Morning After (1986) -- 26 Inferno (1953) and Ordeal (1973 [TV]) -- 27 Iq The Jury (1953, 1982) -- 28 Rear Window (1954, 1998 [TV]) -- 29 Les Diaboliques (1955), Reyections of Murder (1974 [TV]), House of Secrets (1993 [TV]), and Diabolique (1996) -- 30 The Desperate Hours (1955) and Desperate Hours (1990) -- 31 Night of the Hunter (1955, 1991 [TV]) -- 32 A Kiss Before Dying (1956, 1991) -- 33 Ransom (1956, 1996).

34 Vertigo (1958) and Mirage (1995) -- 35 A Bout de Souffle (aka Breathless , 1960) and Breathless (1981) -- Conclusion -- Appendix A From Plays, Mysteries, Melodramas, Thrillers, Pre- Noir to Film Noir -- Appendix B From Thriller, Horror, Caper, Suspense, Neo- Noir to New Noir Remake -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.