Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square is a 1966 novel by Arthur La Bern, which was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's film Frenzy (1972).

The novel and film tell the story of Bob Rusk, a serial killer in London who rapes and strangles women.

[1] Though the adaptation is in fact fairly faithful, there are significant differences between the original novel and Hitchcock's film.

Most significantly, while Hitchcock set his film in the 1970s, the original novel takes place in the 1960s with several references to the Second World War.

Richard Blamey was a Royal Air Force veteran who had participated in the Dresden fire-bombing as "chief candle dropper": He dropped the incendiary flares that enabled the bombers to find their targets.