A Man About a Dog

A Man About a Dog

File:A Man About a Dog.jpg First edition
Author	Alec Coppel
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	Harrap
Publication date	1947
Media type	Print

A Man About a Dog is a 1947 thriller novel by the British-Australian writer Alec Coppel. Driven to distraction by his wife's repeated affairs, her husband decides to kidnap her latest lover and commit the perfect murder, only to be thwarted by a dog.

Adaptations

In 1949 it was adapted into the British film Obsession directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Robert Newton, Sally Gray and Naunton Wayne. Coppel himself wrote the screenplay. Coppel also wrote a stage play under the original title A Man About a Dog which ran in the West End for 23 performances at the Princes Theatre in 1949.

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• Keaney, Michael F. British Film Noir Guide. McFarland, 2008.
• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.