The film was based on a 1935 novel written by John O ' Hara in the wake of the success of his critically acclaimed Appointment in Samarra.

The story was titled ' The Appointment in Samarra ', and subsequently formed the germ of the novel Appointment in Samarra by John O ' Hara.

* The Appointment in Samarra

Writer John O ' Hara, who would go on to become a world-famous novelist with Appointment in Samarra, covered the team for the local newspaper.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Appointment in Samarra 22nd on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

He got the idea for the title Appointment in Samarra when Dorothy Parker showed him the story in Maugham's play, Sheppey.

Biographer Frank MacShane writes " The excessiveness of Julian's suicide is what makes Appointment in Samarra so much a part of its time.

But Appointment in Samarra was controversial, too.

John O ' Hara ( 1905 – 1970 ) was an American writer of Appointment in Samarra, Butterfield 8, and many short stories.

* Appointment in Samarra, by John O ' Hara.

Lydia Prince died 5 October 1975, the same year her biography was published, Appointment in Jerusalem.

Appointment with Death is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on May 2, 1938 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

Hackney published memoir about the turmoil of his confirmation, The Politics of Presidential Appointment: A Memoir of the Culture War 1-58838-068-8, was published in 2002.

The novel was expanded from Dick's short story Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday, first published in the August 1966 edition of Amazing Stories.

Appointment with Venus () is a novel by Jerrard Tickell published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1951, leading to a British film adaptation the same year and a Danish film adaptation in 1962.

* Penang Appointment – 1934 ( Gollancz ) US: 1935 ( Doubleday )

As a writer, Duff wrote for films including, Fashions of 1934, Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 ), Experiment Perilous ( 1944 ), Step Lively ( 1944 ) and Appointment with Danger ( 1951 ).

) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.

: Appointment with Death is set in Jerusalem and its surrounding area.

Appointment CRM is a relatively new CRM platform category in which an automated system is used to offer a suite of suitable appointment times to a customer via e-mail or through a web site.

Appointment of a trustee requires some wrongdoing or gross mismanagement on the part of existing management and is relatively rare.

Appointment of a prayer leader is considered desirable, but not always obligatory.

; Appointment of a Committee of Privileges: The President may, if requested to do so by the Seanad, establish a Committee of Privileges to solve a dispute between the two Houses of the Oireachtas as to whether or not a bill is a money bill.

" Congress is also empowered to come up with the guidelines " for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress " ( clause 16 ).

In Agatha Christie's, " Appointment with Death " ( 1938 ), the mysterious and enigmatic Petra is the setting for a murder mystery featuring Hercule Poirot.

* The novel Appointment with Venus by Jerrard Tickell is set on the fictional island of Armorel, which is presumed to be based on Sark.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

Appointment to the office of Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead is a procedural device to effect resignation from the House of Commons, since a British MP is not permitted simply to resign his seat.

Appointment to the office is by letters-patent under the great seal.

A Warrant of Appointment is the official document presented by the President of Ireland to persons upon appointment to certain high offices of State, signed by the President and bearing the Official Seal of the President.

Appointment as an honorary fellow in a learned or professional society can be either to honour exceptional achievement and / or service within the professional domain of the awarding body or to honour contributions related to the domain from someone who is professionally outside of it.

Appointment ( 19: 00-20: 00 ) is a timeslot for repeat broadcasts, feature programmes and specialist series.

Appointment to the Order is submitted to the Yang di-Pertua Negeri ( the Governor ) by the Chief Minister ; every appointment to the Order is by Warrant under the hand of the Yang di-Pertua Negeri.

He is the author of " 2012: Rendez-vous With Marduk " ( also known as 2012: Appointment With Marduk-2003 ), Fraternis: Lost Books, Secret Brotherhood ( 2006 ) and Talismans Protect Thee ( 2004 ).

* Appointment of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of Japan ( except the Chief Justice, who is designated by the Prime Minister and formally appointed by the Emperor ).

It is in that year that Queen Elizabeth II grants her Royal Warrant of Appointment to Stanley Gibbons Ltd as her philatelist.

* Appointment, transferring or removal of officials and judges when the SPA is not in session

1505 — Appointment of Francisco de Almeida as the first viceroy of India

Back Street ( 1941 ) came first, and, as Universal had been urging her to do a light comedy, Appointment for Love ( 1941 ) would be Sullavan's last picture with that company.

* The Guardian Announces Appointment of Hands of the Cause-Announcement of the first contingent of 12 Hands in 1951.

He did some stage work before traveling to Hollywood, where in 1953 he appeared in his first film, Appointment in Honduras.