title: The Desperate Hours (Hayes novel)
text: # The Desperate Hours (Hayes novel)
  
  The Desperate Hours is a thriller novel written by Joseph Hayes in 1954. It concerns three escaped convicts and their invasion of a suburban home and its family.
  
  ## Adaptations
  
  * The Desperate Hours (1955 play)
  * The Desperate Hours (1955 film)
  * The Desperate Hours (1967 TV movie)
  * 36 Ghante (1974 film)
  * Desperate Hours (1990 film)
  
  ## Foreign Language Adaptions
  
  * 36 Ghante (1974)-Hindi language film in India
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