Works by
Charles Williams
(U.S. Writer)
[August 13, 1909 – April 7, 1975]

Fiction

• Man on a Leash (1973)

• And The Deep Blue Sea (1971)

• The Wrong Venus (1966)
   Aka Don't Just Stand There

• Dead Calm (1963)
  John and Rae Ingram are alone on their honeymoon yacht in the Pacific, becalmed. It shoud be idyllic. . .but it's not.
  
  On the near horizon a ship is sinking. They rescue its lone passenger, a young man who claims he buried his wife and another couple, dead from food poisoning. But suspicion gnaws at Ingram, a suspicion only too soon justified. Soon Ingram and his wife are nearly overside with the killer's other victims!

  • Movie: Dead Calm (1989): Phillip Noyce, director with Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill  DVD  VHS

• The Long Saturday Night (1962)
  Aka Confidentially Yours and Finally, Sunday!

  • Movie (1983): Vivement dimanche!  DVD  VHS / Confidentially Yours DVD  VHS: François Truffaut, director with Fanny Ardant and Jean-Louis Trintignant

• Aground (1960)

• The Sailcloth Shroud (1960)

  • Movie (1975): The Man Who Would Not Die VHS / Target in the Sun   VHS: Robert Arkless, director with Dorothy Malone and Keenan Wynn

• Uncle Sagamore and His Girls (1959)

• All the Way (1958)
  Aka The Concrete Flamingo

• Movie: Peau de banane (Banana Peel) (1963), Marcel Ophüls, Director with Alain Cuny and Claude Brasseur  DVD

• Girl Out Back (1958)
  Aka Operator and based on a 1957 novella.

• Man on the Run (1958)
  Aka Man in Motion

• Talk of the Town (1958)
  Also published condensed as Stain of Suspicion

• The Big Bite (1956)

• The Diamond Bikini (1956)

• Scorpion Reef (1955)
  Off the coast of Yucatan stretches a great coral barrier known as Scorpion Reef. And somewhere along the reef, under 60 feet of water, lies a fabulous treasure in diamonds. It's just waiting for someone who can take it--and return.
  
  Beautiful Shannon Macaulay has the only map to the fortune. And Bill Manning is the only man she can trust to help her get it. But unknown to them, a pair of killers is about to turn their treasure hunt into a whirlpool of terror and death.
  
  Aka Gulf Coast Girl and based on his novella Flight to Nowhere.

• A Touch of Death (1954)
  Aka Mix Yourself a Redhead and based on his 1953 novella And Share Alike

• Go Home, Stranger (1954)

• Hell Hath No Fury (1953)
  Aka The Hot Spot

  • Movie: The Hot Spot (1990), Dennis Hopper, director with Don Johnson and Virginia Madsen  DVD  VHS

• Big City Girl (1951)

• River Girl (1951)
  First published as The Catfish Tangle.  A book that shares some similarities with Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice. Down in swamp country a deputy sheriff meets and falls in love with a young lass, but her husband stands in the way... for a time.

• Hill Girl (1951)

• Nothing in Her Way (1953)
  Welcome to the roller-coaster world of professional con men - and the one wild beauty who can out-swindle and outwit them all. Utterly beautiful, smart as a whip, here is the most fascinating confidence woman in modern suspense fiction.
  
  Her name is Cathy Dunbar - all soft and warm and ready for the taking, until one by one her men find out who is really being taken . . .

• Hell Hath No Fury

  • Movie: The Hot Spot (1990), Dennis Hopper, director with Don Johnson and Virginia Madsen  DVD  VHS

• Hill Girl

  • Movie: La Fille des collines (1990)

• Man on the Run

  • Movie: Mieux vaut courir (1989)

• The Long Saturday Night

  • Movie (1983): Vivement dimanche!  DVD  VHS / Confidentially Yours DVD  VHS: François Truffaut, director with Fanny Ardant and Jean-Louis Trintignant

• The Sailcloth Shroud

  • Movie (1975): The Man Who Would Not Die VHS / Target in the Sun   VHS: Robert Arkless, director with Dorothy Malone and Keenan Wynn

• The Diamond Bikini

  • Movie: Fantasia chez les ploucs (1971)

• Dead Calm

  • Movie: The Deep (1970—uncompleted)

  • Movie: Dead Calm (1989), Phillip Noyce, director with Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill  DVD  VHS

• The Wrong Venus

  • Movie: Don't Just Stand There! (1968)

• Aground

  • Movie: L' Arme à gauche (The Dictator's Guns) (1965)

• The Big Bite

  • Movie: Le Gros coup (1964)

• All the Way

  • Movie: The 3rd Voice (1960)

  • Movie: Peau de banane (Banana Peel) (1963), Marcel Ophüls, Director with Alain Cuny and Claude Brasseur  DVD