Emily Will Know

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Emily Will Know
First edition
AuthorNancy Rutledge [fr]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
1949
Media typePrint

Emily Will Know is a 1949 crime novel by the American writer Nancy Rutledge [fr]. It had previously appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in a shorter version under the title Murder for Millions. It was published in France the following year.[1]

Film adaptation[edit]

In 1956 it was adapted into the French film noir The Wages of Sin directed by Denys de La Patellière and starring Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Pascal and Jeanne Moreau.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Walker-Morrison p.241
  2. ^ Gray p.32

Bibliography[edit]

  • Gray, Marianne. La Moreau: A Biography of Jeanne Moreau. Donald I. Fine Books, 1996.
  • Nehr, Ellen. Doubleday Crime Club Compendium, 1928-1991. Offspring Press, 1992.
  • Walker-Morrison, Deborah. Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.