The Life of Alfred Hitchcock

As a teenager Alfred Hitchcock grew enthralled with crime literature starting with the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and moving on to what were essentially early true crime books accounts of actual criminal cases. Spotty says Hitchcock came to think of the murderers he studied as his heroes rather than their victims of the people who caught them. He left school in 1913 when he was 14 and he spent the next seven years doing a mix of odd jobs artistic experimentation and occasional rough attempts at some kind of secondary education.