Cover illustration for The Fiends (1952) by Boileau-Narcejac, originally titled She Was No More, adapted into the 1955 film Les Diaboliques. Boileau-Narcejac is the pen name for the writing duo of Pierre Louis Boileau (1906-1989) and Pierre Ayraud (1909-1998) who also wrote as Thomas Narcejac. The pair wrote over 40 novels together starting in 1952, including The Living And The Dead (1954) adapted by Alfred Hitchcock for 1958’s Vertigo.
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