On both sides of the fictitious Escape, the books on the shelf are : Methods of Criminal Investigation; James B. Connoly, Coaster Captain (a Tale of the Boston Waterfront), 1927; Frank Swinnerton, Sketch of a Sinner, 1929; ; Ford Maddox Ford, The Rash Act, 1933; Conquerors of Time; Bad Company (film de Tay Garnett pour RKO, 1931), inspiré par Jack Lait, Put on the Spot, 1930.
Otto Kruger presently threatens Robert Cummings by pointing at another book: The Death of a Nobody, which is a translation of Jules Romains’ Mort de quelqu’un (1911).
