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1927 novel by Francis Beeding

The House of Dr. Edwardes
First US edition (1928)
AuthorFrancis Beeding
(pseudonym for Hilary A. Saunders and John Palmer)
LanguageEnglish
GenrePsychological Thriller
PublisherHodder & Stoughton (UK)
Little, Brown and Company (US)
Publication date1927
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages308 pp

The House of Dr. Edwardes is a psychological thriller novel written by John Palmer and Hilary A. Saunders under the pseudonym Francis Beeding.

The plot concerns a psychiatrist at an asylum which is about to get a new director. The new man is attracted to Dr. Constance Sedgwick, who discovers eventually that he is not what he claims to be.

The novel was adapted to film in 1945 as Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound.

References

  • Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 45.

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