Editing Crime fiction (section)

===Revivals===
From time to time, publishing houses decide, for commercial purposes, to revive long-forgotten authors, and reprint one or two of their more commercially successful novels. Apart from [[Penguin Books]], which for this purpose have resorted to their old green cover and dug out some of their vintage authors. Pan started a series in 1999 entitled "Pan Classic Crime", which includes a handful of novels by [[Eric Ambler]], but also American [[Hillary Waugh]]'s ''[[Last Seen Wearing ... (Hillary Waugh novel)|Last Seen Wearing ...]]''. In 2000, [[Edinburgh]]-based [[Canongate Books]] started a series called "Canongate Crime Classics" —both  whodunnits and ''roman noir'' about [[amnesia]] and [[insanity]]—and other novels. However, books brought out by smaller publishers such as Canongate Books are usually not stocked by the larger bookshops and overseas booksellers. The British Library has also (since 2012) started republishing "lost" crime classics, with the collection referred to on their website as the "British Library Crime Classics series".

Sometimes, older crime novels are revived by screenwriters and directors rather than publishing houses. In many such cases, publishers then follow suit and release a so-called "film tie-in" edition showing a still from the movie on the front cover and the film credits on the back cover of the book—yet another marketing strategy aimed at those cinemagoers who may want to do both: first read the book and then watch the film (or vice versa). Recent examples include [[Patricia Highsmith]]'s ''[[The Talented Mr. Ripley]]'' (originally published in 1955), [[Ira Levin]]'s ''[[Sliver (novel)|Sliver]]'' (1991), with the cover photograph depicting a steamy sex scene between [[Sharon Stone]] and [[William Baldwin]] straight from the [[Sliver (film)|1993 movie]], and again, [[Bret Easton Ellis]]'s ''[[American Psycho]]'' (1991). [[Bloomsbury Publishing PLC]], though, have launched what they call "Bloomsbury Film Classics"—a series of original novels on which feature films were based. This series includes, for example, [[Ethel Lina White]]'s novel ''The Wheel Spins'' (1936), which [[Alfred Hitchcock]]—before he went to Hollywood—turned into a much-loved movie entitled ''[[The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)|The Lady Vanishes]]'' (1938), and [[Ira Levin]]'s (born 1929) science-fiction thriller ''[[The Boys from Brazil (novel)|The Boys from Brazil]]'' (1976), which was filmed in [[The Boys from Brazil (film)|1978]].

Older novels can often be retrieved from the ever-growing [[Project Gutenberg]] database.