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Which American crime novel was adapted for Shoot the Piano Player?
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François Truffaut
François Truffaut (far right) with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve during the filming of La Sirène du Mississipi (1969; Mississippi Mermaid).
Shoot the Piano Player (1960), directed by François Truffaut, was adapted from the 1956 American crime novel Down There by David Goodis.1