Neville Heath - References in Media

References in Media

• The Heath case was dramatised on the radio series Secrets of Scotland Yard around 1948 as "The Man About Town" and in the subsequent series The Black Museum in 1952 under the title of "The Powder Puff".

• The Neville Heath murders and trial were dramatised in 1981 in the British television reenactment series Ladykillers (original 1980 series titled Lady Killers). Ian Charleson portrayed Heath in the episode, which was titled "Make It a Double".

• In Handsome Brute: The Story of a Ladykiller, Sean O'Connor (producer) examines previously restricted files from the Home Office and Metropolitan Police. New findings from these files question some of the preceding information in this entry.

• In the summer of 1946, Heath dated the South African actress Moira Lister. The Scottish actress Molly Weir also claimed that Heath had tried to chat her up at Bobby's Department Store in Bournemouth in July 1946.

• Heath's case was the basis for three novels by Patrick Hamilton, The West Pier, Mr Stimpson & Mr Gorse and Unknown Assailant. Heath's story is also the inspiration for Arthur La Bern's 1966 novel, Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, which is the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 thriller, Frenzy.