![]() Mystery paperbacks from Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's home in Oxford, Mississippi He also worked on the screenplay for a never-produced film based on Dreadful Hollow, a traditional English mystery novel written by Irina Karlova. Faulkner also makes a brief fictional appearance in Elliott Roosevelt’s Murder at Midnight (1997).ĭuring his stints as a screenwriter in Hollywood, Faulkner adapted for film Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, a Philip Marlowe private eye novel. An unexpected Faulkner mystery association is his appearance as a fictional character in the Hollywood setting of Stuart Kaminisky’s Never Cross a Vampire (1980), which additionally features Bela Lugosi. On loan from Faulkner’s library at Rowan Oak vintage paperbacks ( pictured below) by such luminaries as Erle Stanley Gardner, Rex Stout, Eric Ambler, and Agatha Christie. The cover design on the late 1950s Greek edition O Kapnos Ke Alla Diegemata graphically highlights the collection’s murderous elements. That runner-up later appeared in Knight’s Gambit, Faulkner’s 1949 collection of six detective short stories featuring the lawyer Gavin Stevens. ![]() In 1946, his “An Error in Chemistry” won second prize in the first detective short story contest conducted by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. ![]() Both William Faulkner and Eudora Welty were avid readers of mystery novels, but only Faulkner actually wrote detective fiction. ![]()
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