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* Writing as " William Irish ", Cornell Woolrich published Waltz into Darkness ( 1947 ), set in 1880 New Orleans.

Interestingly, both film versions — François Truffaut's La sirène du ( Mississippi Mermaid, 1969 ) and Michael Cristofer's Original Sin ( 2001 ) — place the action at a later time ( and elsewhere ).