A Man About a Dog
1947 novel
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| Author | Alec Coppel |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Harrap |
Publication date | 1947 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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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.
Film adaptation
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]
Play version
Alec Coppel originally wrote the story as a play when he was living in Sydney during World War II. He adapted it into a novel while travelling to London. Coppel titled the play and the novel A Man About a Dog,[3] but in the United States, the novel was titled Over the Line.
The play opened in London in April 1946[4] and the novel was published in 1948, although many critics commented that the novel felt similar to a play.[5][6]
Another production of the play was staged in London in May 1949.[7]
References
- ^ Reilly p.352
- ^ Goble p.94
- ^ "Sydney's Talking About—". The Sydney Morning Herald. 3 July 1947. p. 14. Retrieved 20 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "VARIETY". The Truth. Sydney. 3 March 1946. p. 32. Retrieved 20 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "New Novels of the Week on the Good Earth". The Argus. Melbourne. 3 January 1948. p. 22. Retrieved 20 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "New Fiction". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 April 1948. p. 6. Retrieved 20 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Production of A Man About A Dog | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
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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Works by Alec Coppel
- Short Circuit (1935)
- The Stars Foretell (1936)
- I Killed the Count (1937)
- Let’s Pretend (1938)
- Believe It or Not (1940)
- Mr Smart Guy (1941)
- My Friend Lester (1947)
- A Man About a Dog (1949)
- The Genius and the Goddess (1957)
- The Joshua Tree (1958)
- Oh, Captain! (1958)
- The Gazebo (1959)
- Viva Le Difference (1960)
- The Captain's Paradise (1961)
- Not in My Bed, You Don’t (1968)
- Cadenza (1977)
- I Killed the Count (1938)
- A Man About a Dog (1947)
- Mr. Denning Drives North (1950)
- The Last Parable (1953)
- Moment to Moment (1966)
- Tweeldedum and Tweedledee (1967)
- Over the Moon (1939)
- I Killed the Count (1939)
- Just like a Woman (1939)
- Smithy (1946)
- Brass Monkey (1948)
- Woman Hater (1948)
- Obsession (1949)
- Two on the Tiles (1950)
- Smart Alec (1951)
- No Highway in the Sky (1951)
- Mr. Denning Drives North (1952)
- The Captain's Paradise (1953)
- Hell Below Zero (1954)
- The Black Knight (1954)
- To Catch a Thief (1954)
- Appointment with a Shadow (1957)
- Vertigo (1958)
- The Gazebo (1959)
- Swordsman of Siena (1962)
- Moment to Moment (1966)
- The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
- The Statue (1971)
- A Kiss Is Just a Kiss (1971)
- Jo (1971)
- A Rum Affair (1940)
- Mr Smart Guy (1941)
- I Killed the Count (1941)
- Stories from Scotland Yard (1948)
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