Adapting a crime story for film calls for decisions about pacing, performance and the balance between investigative clues and character history. Patrick Coyle’s screen version draws on the central conflict of Thomas Rumreich’s original work.
This overview describes the adaptation at a general level; it does not invent specific changes to scenes or characters.
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