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Venetian Bird

First edition cover (showing the Lion of Venice)
Author	Victor Canning
Language	English
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date	1950
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

Venetian Bird is a 1950 thriller novel by the British writer Victor Canning.

In 1952 the story was turned into a film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Richard Todd, Eva Bartok and Margot Grahame, with Canning adapting his own novel for the screenplay.^[1] In 1975, the novel was adapted by screenwriter Alfred Hayes into a two-part, eighth season episode of the CBS private eye TV series Mannix entitled "Bird of Prey". It was shot on Catalina island, doubling for a fictional Latin American country. Most of the characters remain the same while Joe Mannix replaces Richard Mercer from the novel.

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

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