Screen adaptation announced for any of these newly public domain books: As I Lay Dying, The Maltese Falcon, The Murder at the Vicarage, or The Secret of the Old Clock?

This year thousands of works published in 1930 entered the U.S. public domain. William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Dashiell Hammett's noir masterpiece The Maltese Falcon. Agatha Christie's first Miss Marple mystery, The Murder at the Vicarage. And The Secret of the Old Clock, the book that introduced Nancy Drew. Will any studio or streamer announce a new screen adaptation of one of these four titles by year's end? Learn more