The House of Dr. Edwardes: Filmed as Spellbound by Alfred Hitchcock (Merlin Classic Crime) By Francis Beeding
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Francis Beeding is the pseudonym used by two British male writers John Leslie Palmer 1885 1944 and Hilary St George Saunders 1898 1951 The pseudonym was a joint effort and was apparently chosen because Palmer always wanted to be called Francis and Saunders had once owned a house in the Sussex village of Beeding. Book The House of Dr. edwardes electrical The pair met when undergraduates at Oxford and remained friends when they both worked at the League of Nations in Geneva and it was while there that they decided to collaborate on writing detective novels. Book The House of Dr. edwardese Discussing their collaboration at one time Saunders commented Palmer can t be troubled with description and narrative and I m no good at creating characters or dialogue Whatever the reason it certainly worked. Book The House of Dr. edwardes Palmer was drama critic for The Saturday Evening Review of Literature and also the Evening Standard As well as his collaboration on detective novels he wrote such as The Comedy of Manners Moliere and other books on the theatre He also wrote novels under the pseudonym of Christopher Haddon. The House of Dr. Edwardes pdf download Saunders served with the Welsh Guards in World War I and was awarded the Military Cross He worked for the Air Ministry in World War II and was the anonymous author of the popular bestseller The Battle of Britain in 1940 It sold over three million copies in England and was translated into 25 languages He also wrote The Green Beret 1949 an official history of the British commandos He was librarian at the House of Commons from 1946 to 1950. Book The House of Dr. edwardes college Palmer and Saunders collaboration on detective fiction began with The Seven Sleepers in 1925 It was the first of 17 spy titles concerning Colonel Alastair Granby DSO of the Secret branch of the British Intelligence Service Many of those titles contained a number from one to 13 but they did not run consecutively for example The Six Proud Walkers was published in 1928 while The One Sane Man was published in 1934 Overall they produced 31 mysteries. The House of Dr. Edwardes epub online Perhaps their most famous novel was Death Walks in Eastrepps 1931 a title that the Sherlock Holmes scholar Vincent Starrett once described as the best detective novel that he had ever read. The House of Dr. edwardesus Gerry WolstenholmeDecember 2011 A first rate mystery WESTMINSTER GAZETTE Guaranteed hair raising THE NEW OUTLOOK Remarkable DAILY MAILAn excellent horror and mystery tale one of the best of recent years THE SATURDAY REVIEWHaving recently graduated from medical college Constance Sedgwick travels to France to take up a position at a prestigious clinic run by Dr Edwardes treating wealthy but insane patients The clinic is situated in the ancient Chateau Landry isolated in the dramatic Savoy mountains Little does Constance know that she is in terrible danger In 1945 Alfred Hitchcock turned this novel into the classic film SPELLBOUND starring Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman First published in 1927 THE HOUSE OF DR EDWARDES is a Golden Age Thriller Francis Beeding was the pen name used by a pair of writers John Palmer 1885 1944 and Hilary Saint George Saunders 1898 1951 who co authored 31 historical crime and thriller novels over three decades The House of Dr Edwardes Filmed as Spellbound by Alfred Hitchcock Merlin Classic Crime
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