Pierre Boileau

Boileau-Narcejac is the pen name used by the French crime-writing duo of Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud, also known as Thomas Narcejac. Their successful collaboration produced 43 novels, 100 short stories and 4 plays. They are credited with having helped to form an authentically French subgenre of crime fiction with the emphasis on local settings and mounting psychological suspense. Their works were adapted into numerous films, most notably, "Les Diaboliques" (1955), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and "Vertigo" (1958), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.