bill krohn has been the Hollywood correspondent of the influential movie magazine Cahiers du cinema for over twenty years. During this time he has interviewed many of Hitchcock's closest collaborators. It was the difference between the man they described and the man he thought he knew that motivated him to write this book.

Based on new research of Hitchcock's personal papers and film studio archives, hitchcock at work invites the reader to share the creative secrets of the century's greatest movie magician whose films still terrify and delight people all over the world.