Frenzy. Poster of the 1972 movie and cover of the 1966 book, Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square
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Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square
Arthur La Bern, 1966
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1972

Set in the early 1970s, the plot centres on a serial killer terrorizing London by raping and then strangling women with a necktie. Bob Rusk, a Covent Garden wholesale produce merchant, is the murderer. However, circumstantial evidence, partially engineered by Rusk, will implicate Rusk’s friend Richard Blaney, who becomes a fugitive attempting to prove his innocence.


Willow. Poster of the 1988 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Willow
Wayland Drew, 1988
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Ron Howard, 1988

When a prophecy states that a female child with a special birthmark will herald the downfall of the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda, she imprisons all pregnant women in her realm to prevent its fulfillment. When the child is born, the mother begs the midwife to smuggle the infant to safety. The midwife reluctantly accepts and leaves Nockmaar Castle unnoticed. The mother is executed; the midwife is hunted down and eventually found.


The Eagle Has Landed. Poster of the 1976 movie and cover of the 1975 book
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The Eagle Has Landed
Jack Higgins, 1975
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John Sturges, 1976

Admiral Canaris, head of German military intelligence, is ordered by Adolf Hitler to make a feasibility study into capturing the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Although Canaris considers it a meaningless exercise that will soon be forgotten by the Führer, he knows this will not be the case with Heinrich Himmler. He therefore orders one of his staff officers, Oberst Radl, to begin a study to avoid being possibly discredited.


Danny the Champion of the World. Poster of the 1989 movie and cover of the 1975 book
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Danny the Champion of the World
Roald Dahl, 1975
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Gavin Millar, 1989

In 1955, William Smith, a widower, lives with his nine-year-old son, Danny, in a vardo behind the filling station and garage where he works in the English countryside. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy, and when he won’t take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father.


Fatherland. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the 1991 book
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Fatherland
Robert Harris, 1991
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Christopher Menaul, 1994

Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany’s war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.