Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
Created by Samuel Fuller

A fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek, German-financed TV film by legendary American director Sam Fuller, Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street follows a Yank private eye (Corbett) as he goes undercover in Germany to crack a international gang of drug-dealing extortionists who prey on politicians, and to avenge his partner's death. He's aided by the lovely Lang (Mrs. Fuller in real life).

Fuller later wrote a novelization of this film that was "was particularly well done and ...successful as a mystery/ HB book at the time," according to E. Borgers, of the Hardboiled Mysteries Website.

FILM

• DEAD PIGEON ON BEETHOVEN STREET
  (AKA Tatort - Tote Taube in der Beethovenstrasse)
  (1972, German)
  102 minutes
  Screenplay by Samuel Fuller
  Directed by Samuel Fuller
  Produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Bavaria Atelier GmbH
  Starring Glenn Corbett as SANDY
  and Christa Lang as CHRISTA
  Also starring Anton Diffring, Eric P. Caspar, William Ray, Anthony Chinn, Alexander D'Arcy, Sieghardt Rupp, Hans Blumenberg, Armin Halstenberg, Stephane Audran

NOVELIZATION

• Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1974)
  

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