 Together they wrote more than thirty novels, of which several were adapted for film.Most famously, their novel "Badge of Evil" was adapted into the Orson Welles film "Touch of Evil".Other works filmed were "A Cry in the Night" (1956) based on "All Through the Night", "The Yellow Canary" (1963) based on "Evil Come, Evil Go", "Kitten with a Whip" (1964) based on the novel of the same name, "Warning Shot" based on "711--Officer Needs Help" and "The Death of Me Yet" (1971) based on the 1970 novel of the same name.