About The Book

Steven Soderbergh, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and Phil Joanou are among the talented people who have come together to create a new anthology series of half-hour film noir classics for Showtime Networks.

Fallen Angels is a collection of six original short stories from the masters of the hard-boiled mystery/crime genre, along with the complete screen adaptation of each story in black-and-white film noir images and behind-the-scenes photographs taken by some of the world’s most renowned photographers. It offers an inside look at how Hollywood’s top writers transform this classic material for the screen.

Includes:

Raymond Chandler, “I’ll Be Waiting”
Jim Thompson, “The Frightening Frammis’
William Campbell Gault, ‘dead-End for Delia”
Cornell Woolrich, ‘murder, Obliquely”
Jonathan Craig, “The Quiet Room”
James Ellroy, ‘since I Don’t Have You”