Individually they were each winners of the prestigious Prix du Roman d'Aventures awarded each year to the best example of detective fiction, French or foreign: Boileau for Le Repos de Bacchus in 1938 and Narcejac for La Mort est du Voyage in 1948, each a locked-room mystery. They met on the occasion of the award dinner for Narcejac in 1948, to which Boileau - as a prior winner - had been invited. Their collaboration began shortly thereafter, with Boileau providing the plots and Narcejac the atmosphere and characterisations, not unlike Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee (Ellery Queen).

Bibliography

• Celle qui n'était plus (1952), adapted in 1955 by Clouzot, as Les Diaboliques
• D'entre les morts (1954), adapted in 1958 by Hitchcock, as Vertigo
• Les louves (1956)
• Les Magiciennes (1957)
• L'Ingenieur Aimait Trop les Chiffres (1958)
• ... Et mon tout est un homme (1965)
• Carte vermeil (1978)
• Les intouchables (1980)
• Le soleil dans la main (1990)
• La main passe (1991)
• Les nocturnes (1992)

The last three books were the work of Narcejac working alone.

There are a couple of books in a series named "Sans Atout" in French. The books however are aimed at younger readers and relate the adventure of a young boy with detective and deduction skills.

• Les pistolets de Sans Atout
• Sans Atout contre l'homme à la dague
• Sans Atout et le cheval fantôme
• Sans Atout, une étrange disparition
• Sans Atout, l'invisible agresseur
• Sans Atout, la vengeance de la mouche
• Sans Atout dans la gueule du loup
• Sans Atout, le cadavre fait le mort

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