Night Darkens the Street is a 1947 crime novel by the British writer Arthur La Bern.Reilly p.921Mayer p.137 The title is taken from a line of Paradise Lost by John Milton. It is also known as Night Darkens the Streets. It was inspired by the Cleft chin murder of 1944.Murphy p.77
Synopsis Glen Rawlins, a teenager with ambitions, runs away from her drab Pimlico home and becomes mixed up with the shady but seemingly glamorous world of London's West End nightclubs. Attractive but starry-eyed and naïve, she ends up falling in with a deserter from the American army who draws her into murder.
Film adaptation In 1948 it was adapted into the British film noir Good-Time Girl directed by David MacDonald and starring Jean Kent, Dennis Price and Herbert Lom.Goble p.270
References
Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. Mayer, Geoff. Roy Ward Baker. Manchester University Press, 2004. Murphy, Robert. Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939–48. Routledge, 1992. Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.