The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

* C. S. Lewis used the epistolary form for The Screwtape Letters ( 1942 ), and considered writing a companion novel from an angel's point of view — though he never did so.

A melanistic jaguar loose in a South American city is the central figure in the 1942 novel Black Alibi by Cornell Woolrich.

The work can be seen in relation to other absurdist works by Camus: the novel The Stranger ( 1942 ), the plays The Misunderstanding ( 1942 ) and Caligula, and especially the essay The Rebel ( 1951 ).

The Stranger or The Outsider ( L ’ Étranger ) is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1942.

The Librairie Gallimard first published the original French-language novel in 1942.

Many of its situations, characters and dialogue are derived from the work of Dashiell Hammett, especially his 1931 novel The Glass Key and the 1942 film that was adapted from it.

The founder of this new culture is generally considered Carlo Alianello, who in his first novel, The Ensign ( l ' Alfiere ) ( 1942 ) expressed a serious indictment of the creators and unification policies of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

* The Harvey Girls ( novel ), a 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

* Rogers was the heroine of a novel, Ginger Rogers and the Riddle of the Scarlet Cloak ( 1942, by Lela E. Rogers ), in which " the heroine has the same name and appearance as the famous actress but has no connection ... it is as though the famous actress has stepped into an alternate reality in which she is an ordinary person.

Random Harvest is a 1942 film based on the 1941 James Hilton novel of the same name, directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

The novel Le Silence de la Mer was written in 1942 by Jean Bruller, and quickly became a symbol of mental resistance through its story of how an old man and his niece do not speak to the German officer occupying their house.

The Robe is a 1942 historical novel about the Crucifixion of Jesus written by Lloyd C. Douglas.

In 1942, he realized his longtime dream when this first novel For My Great Folly was published, and it became a bestseller with over 132, 000 copies sold.

However, the episode provided the plot for Rex Beach's best-selling novel The Spoilers ( 1906 ), which was made into a stage play, then five times into movies, including two versions starring John Wayne: The Spoilers ( 1942 film ) ( co-starring Marlene Dietrich ) and North to Alaska ( 1960, the theme of which mentions Nome.

Atwood is the birthplace of the writer Rex Beach, best known for his 1906 novel The Spoilers, which was made into a movie five times, most notably in 1930 starring Gary Cooper and in 1942 starring John Wayne.

In the novel Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte, 1944, Schmeling figures prominently in the chapter Cricket in Poland depicting a gathering in February 1942 hosted by Govenor-General Dr. Hans Frank in the Belvedere palace in Warsaw.

* There are reports that Bruno Schulz worked on a novel called The Messiah, but no trace of this manuscript survived his death ( 1942 ).

Today, he is best known for his novel The Magnificent Ambersons, which Orson Welles filmed in 1942.

A. J. Cronin's first novel, Hatter's Castle ( 1931 ), includes a scene involving the Tay Bridge Disaster, and the 1942 filmed version of the book recreates the bridge's catastrophic collapse.

Her many films include Boom Town ( 1940 ) with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, Comrade X with Gable, White Cargo ( 1942 ), and Tortilla Flat ( 1942 ) with Tracy and John Garfield, based on the novel by John Steinbeck.

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

Joseph Henri Maurice " The Rocket " Richard, (; ; August 4, 1921 – May 27, 2000 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) from 1942 to 1960.

Before his death, Jack Parsons appeared in science fiction writer Anthony Boucher's murder mystery Rocket to the Morgue ( 1942 ) under the guise of Hugo Chantrelle.

* Rocket to the Morgue ( as H. H. Holmes ) ( 1942 )

In Maurice Richard ( The Rocket ), directed by Charles Binamé ( Séraphin: un homme et son péché ) and released in late November 2005, Roy Dupuis stars as French-Canadian ice hockey icon Maurice " Rocket " Richard, who played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1942 to 1960 and whom he portrayed previously on Canadian television in 1997 and 1999.

* Division 3 ( Special Projectiles / Rocket Ordnance ), John T. Tate, Chief ( 1942 – 1943 ), Frederick L. Hovde, Chief ( 1943 – 1946 )

In addition the Battle of Alam el Halfa ( 30 August-5 September 1942 ), was fought between both battles and in the same location.

On his orders, by spring 1942 the camp at Auschwitz had been greatly expanded, including the addition of gas chambers, where victims were killed using the pesticide Zyklon B.

In addition to her major project, Hyman extensively revised A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy in 1942 into a textbook as well as laboratory manual ; she referred to it as her " bread and butter " for its income.

In 1942, Schlesinger began producing Looney Tunes in color as well, and the two series became virtually indistinguishable except by their theme music and opening titles – in addition, characters once exclusive to one series began regularly appearing in the other as well.

In addition to the Nobel Prize, Hench has been awarded the Heberdeen Medal ( 1942 ), the Lasker Award ( 1949 ), the Passano Foundation Award ( 1950 ), and the Criss Award.

In addition, it was quickly bought by Warner Brothers and adapted as a movie by the same name, released in 1942.

In addition to Klee Wyck, Carr wrote The Book of Small ( 1942 ), The House of All Sorts ( 1944 ), and, published posthumously, Growing Pains ( 1946 ), Pause, The Heart of a Peacock ( 1953 ), and Hundreds and Thousands ( 1966 ).

In addition to the present campuses, Fairleigh Dickinson University operated campuses in Rutherford, NJ ( where the University was founded in 1942 ) and in Saint Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands.

In addition a small number of other textbooks and dictionaries in GR were published in Hong Kong and overseas from 1942 to 2000.

In addition to its resident squadrons, records indicate a further ten front line squadrons were stationed there in spring 1942.

Students from the Netherlands, East Indies, France, Brazil and China were also trained at MAAF in addition to the over 8, 000 U. S. Army Air Forces aviation cadets trained at this base from 1942 to 1946.

O ' Connell's 1942 recording of Brazil with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra was a 2009 addition to the Grammy Hall of Fame.

For many months in 1942, the OUN-B was not able to control the situation in Volhynia, where in addition to Soviet partisans, many independent Ukrainian self-defense groups started to form in response to the growth of German terror.

In addition, MacDonald was one of the top ten box-office attractions in Great Britain from 1937 to 1942 inclusive.

The Pacific Coast Militia Rangers were formed in 1942 in order to provide an armed presence on the coast in addition to the pre-war fortress garrisons, which were expanded after hostilities.

This sped up decoding and the addition of more translators on staff in 1942 made it easier and quicker to decipher the traffic intercepted.

In addition to the bombers, 398 Spitfires and Hurricanes of Fighter Command flew several sorties on 12 February 1942.

They also manufactured five million linseed-oil cattle cakes with a hole bored into them for addition of anthrax spores between 1942 and mid-1943.

In addition, from 1940 to 1945, surcharges and new values were applied to stamps from the 1927 Landscapes set, the " Historical issue ", the 1939 charity set and 1942 definitives.

In addition to those listed, during 1942 – 43, the 14th, 21st, 25th and 30th Brigades were also attached, albeit temporarily for varying periods.

By January 1942, there were 50 aircraft on base, in addition to 28 B-18A Bolo bombers used for training.

In addition, the German Reich relied substantially upon Danish agriculture, which supplied meat and butter to 3. 6 million Germans in 1942 alone.

In addition to Bialystok in 1942, many Jews in the Palestinian Mandate contemplated retreating to Mount Carmel and organizing a defense line due to prospects of a possible Nazi invasion of the region.

In 1942 the Treasurer, Ben Chifley, appointed him Director of Rationing, and in 1943 made him Director-General of the Department of Post-war Reconstruction, a new ministry which Chifley held in addition to the Treasury.