Hitchcock on the wrong track -- Hitchcock vs. Highsmith -- To catch a screenwriter -- Hitchcock outwits the Breen office -- Casting a spell -- Hitchcock back on track -- Before the Psycho shower scene : so long to the fair -- On a carousel -- Whose scene is it anyway? -- Tiomkin : music, maestro, please -- Previewing, finessing, and selling the picture -- Strangers meets the public -- Familiar strangers

"From the author of the acclaimed Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho (adapted into the 2012 film Hitchcock) comes the engrossing true story behind Strangers on the Train, Hitchcock's bold adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's classic novel"--