of coolly calculated and diabolically engineered crimes, revolving around greed, corruption, and what they called "the dark side of reason." "Boileau and Narcejac thus provided an indigenous French equivalent to the American film noir, but without having to detour through a reference to the USA". Michel Lafon and Benoît Peeters praised Boileau and Narcejac for the renewal of the crime novel in the 1950s by finding "the third way between the English-style whodunit and the North American hard-boiled novel." Only two English translations of their novels are currently in print and their reputation in the English-speaking world has been largely superseded by the film adaptations made by Hitchcock and Clouzot. Robin Wood wrote about The Living and the Dead: "The drab, willful pessimism of D’entre les morts is an essentially different world from the intense traffic sense of Vertigo, which derives from a simultaneous awareness of the immense value of human relationships and their inherent incapability of perfect realization." Christopher Lloyd made a similar comment about She Who Was No More: "Many spectators and readers would probably agree that Clouzot’s film outclasses the original novel both in terms of creating horror and suspense, and in displaying an insouciant disregard for implausibilities of plot." He also remarked: "If Boileau-Narcejac are genuine innovators in detective fiction, then, it is certainly not because of their psychological realism or sociological perspicacity, but essentially because of their reconfiguration of plot and the conflictual relations between characters." A street in Nantes was named after Thomas Narcejac in 2010. Bibliography Only a handful of Boileau-Narcejac works have been translated into English, and most of these translations are out of print. 1952 – Celle qui n'était plus; English translation: The Woman Who Was No More (Rinehart, 1954), also published as The Fiends (Arrow, 1956) and She Who Was No More (Pushkin Vertigo, 2015). 1952 – Les Visages de l'ombre; English translation: Faces in the Dark (Hutchinson, 1955). 1954 – D'entre les morts ("From amongst the dead"); English translation: The Living and the Dead (1956), also published as Vertigo (Dell, 1958; Pushkin Vertigo, 2015). 1955 – Les Louves; English translation: The Prisoner (Hutchinson, 1957). 1956 – Le mauvais oeil; English translation: The Evil Eye (Hutchinson, 1959). 1956 – Au bois dormant; English translation: Sleeping Beauty (1959). 1957 – Les magiciennes ("The Sorceresses"). 1958 – L'ingénieur aimait trop les chiffres; English translation: The Tube (Hamish Hamilton, 1960). 1959 – À