This collection of essays examines the various Hitchcock films that were adapted from other sources short stories play and novels. Some of these essays focus on the directoramprsquos collaboration with such notable writers as John Steinbeck Lifeboat Thornton Wilder Shadow of a Doubt and Raymond Chandler Strangers on a Train proving not only that Hitchcock knew good writing when he read it but that he was quite eager to exploit the cultural capital that these writers represented. Other essays discuss to what extent he was faithful or not to the source materials his relationship with screenwritersadaptors such as Joseph Stefano Psycho and what role his wife Alma Reville played in the development of several screenplays.