Yet when the husband goes to “discover” her body, it has vanished. They do it in such a way as to make it seem to be an accident which happened while both have solid alibis. A man’s mistress helps a man kill his wife. The story is both easy and not so easy to describe. She Who Was No More is one of them, and it’s good to have it back in print again, after a long wait of over 60 years. Unfortunately, of the the ten titles included in Hubin, only three have been published in the US. The collaboration between French authors Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac is perhaps most famous for producing, among several other works of well-regarded crime fiction, The Living and the Dead ( D’entre les Morts, 1954), the basis for the movie Vertigo, considered by many to be the best of Alfred Hitchcock’s many films. Films: Diaboliques (France, 1955 director: Henri-Georges Clouzot) House of Secrets (US, 1993 made for TV) Diabolique (US, 1996). Hutchinson, UK, hardcover, as The Woman Who Was, 1954. Reprinted by Rinehart, US, hardcover, 1954. First published by Éditions Denoël (France) in 1952 as Celle qui n’était plus.
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