Psycho. Poster of the 1960 movie and cover of the 1959 book
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Psycho
Robert Bloch, 1959
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1960

Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. One Friday, Marion is trusted to bank forty thousand dollars by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into the Bates Motel.


Rear Window. Poster of the 1954 movie and cover of the 1942 book, It Had to Be Murder
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It Had to Be Murder
Cornell Woolrich, 1942
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1954

Recuperating from a broken leg, adventuresome professional photographer L. B. Jeff Jefferies is confined to a wheelchair in his apartment in Chelsea, Manhattan. He spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.


Vertigo. Poster of the 1958 movie and cover of the 1954 book
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Vertigo
Boileau-Narcejac, 1954
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1958

After a rooftop chase, where a fellow policeman falls to his death, San Francisco detective John “Scottie” Ferguson retires due to fear of heights and vertigo. Gavin Elster, an acquaintance from college, asks Scottie to follow his wife, Madeleine, claiming that her mental state was abnormal and could put her in danger.


Dial M for Murder. Poster of the 1954 movie and cover of the 1952 book
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Dial M for Murder
Frederick Knott, 1952
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1954

Tony Wendice, an English retired champion tennis player, is married to wealthy socialite Margot, who has had an affair with American crime-fiction writer Mark Halliday. the following evening, he will go with Mark to a party, leaving Margot at home while hiding her latchkey under the carpet of the staircase facing the front door of their flat.


Rebecca. Poster of the 1940 movie and cover of the 1938 book
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Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier, 1938
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1940

In Monte Carlo, Max de Winter stops to speak to Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper only after recognizing her companion, the girl he had encountered earlier. Maxim takes his new bride back to Manderley, his grand mansion by the sea in south-western England, dominated by its housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, a chilly individual who had been a close confidante of the first Mrs. De Winter—Rebecca—with whom she is clearly still obsessed.


Rope. Poster of the 1948 movie and cover of the 1929 book, Rope: A Play in Three Acts
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Rope: A Play in Three Acts
Patrick Hamilton, 1929
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1948

Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, strangle to death their former classmate from Harvard University, David Kentley, in their Manhattan penthouse apartment. they want to prove their superiority by committing the ‘perfect murder’. The guests, who are unaware of what has happened, include the victim’s father, Mr. Kentley, and aunt, Mrs. Atwater.


Rope. Poster of the 1948 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
Don Ward, 1948
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1948

Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, strangle to death their former classmate from Harvard University, David Kentley, in their Manhattan penthouse apartment. they want to prove their superiority by committing the ‘perfect murder’. The guests, who are unaware of what has happened, include the victim’s father, Mr. Kentley, and aunt, Mrs. Atwater.


Strangers on a Train. Poster of the 1951 movie and cover of the 1950 book
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Strangers on a Train
Patricia Highsmith, 1950
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1951

Amateur tennis star Guy Haines wants to divorce his promiscuous wife Miriam so he can marry Anne Morton, the daughter of a US Senator. On a train, smooth-talking psychopath Bruno Antony recognizes Haines and reveals his idea for a murder scheme: two perfect strangers meet and swap murders — Bruno suggests he kill Miriam and Guy kill Bruno’s hated father.


The Lady Vanishes. Poster of the 1938 movie and cover of the 1936 book, The Wheel Spins
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The Wheel Spins
Ethel Lina White, 1936
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1938

English tourist Iris Henderson and her friends Blanche and Julie are in the fictional European country of Bandrika. In the same predicament are Charters and Caldicott, English cricket enthusiasts anxious to see the last days of the Test match in Manchester, and Miss Froy, a governess and music teacher who is returning home to England.


The Birds. Poster of the 1963 movie and cover of the 1952 book
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The Birds
Daphne du Maurier, 1952
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1963

In the early 1960s, at a San Francisco pet store, socialite Melanie Daniels meets lawyer Mitch Brenner who is looking to buy lovebirds for his sister Cathy’s 11th birthday. To make amends, and finding him attractive, Melanie buys the lovebirds and delivers them to Mitch’s apartment, only to learn he is away for the weekend at his family’s farm in Bodega Bay.


The 39 Steps. Poster of the 1935 movie and cover of the 1915 book, The Thirty-Nine Steps
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan, 1915
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1935

At a London music hall theatre, Richard Hannay is watching a demonstration of the superlative powers of recall of Mr. Memory when shots are fired. When he sees police searching the train, he enters a compartment and starts kissing the sole occupant, Pamela, in a desperate attempt to escape detection.


Spellbound. Poster of the 1945 movie and cover of the 1927 book, The House of Dr. Edwardes
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The House of Dr. Edwardes
Francis Beeding (John Palmer), Hilary Saint George Saunders, 1927
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1945

Dr. Constance Petersen is a psychoanalyst at Green Manors, a therapeutic community mental hospital in Vermont. At the same time, it becomes public knowledge that the supposed Edwardes is an impostor, and that the real Edwardes is missing and may have been killed.