Hitchcock Annual volume 27 includes essays on "The Whole Hitchcock, and Nothing But the Parts," the complex villain in I Confess, Marnie and The Taming of the Shrew, and the olfactory world of Psycho. Reviews focus on books on Hitchcock's blondes, Psycho and taxidermy, and classical elements in Vertigo, and the film My Name is Alfred Hitchcock.