The House of Dr. Edwardes
A novel of psychological terror set in a mental asylum that became the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. From the outset, the air that Beeding's characters breathe crackles with ominous electricity. This is surely what appealed to Alfred Hitchcock when he found Beeding's The House of Dr. Edwardes and used it as the inspiration for his unforgettable film Spellbound. The house of the title is a lunatic asylum in France and Dr. Edwardes is the head psychiatrist. While Edwardes is held in high esteem, an almost iconic figure in psychiatric circles, there is something clearly amiss. The novel ope…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7953-2894-7
- EAN: 9780795328947
- Produktnummer: 18890139
- Verlag: RosettaBooks
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Francis Beeding is a pseudonym used by two British writers--Hilary St. George Saunders (1898-51) and John Palmer (1885-44), best friends who co-authored dozens of novels throughout the 1920s, '30s and '40s. The two authors actually had two pen-names; one was Francis Beeding who penned crime novels, and the other David Pilgrim, who wrote historical novels. Saunders in particular wrote prolifically, also partnering with Geoffrey Dennis to write under the pseudonym Barum Browne, and teamed with a member of parliament, John de Vere Loder, to write under the moniker Cornelius Coffyn.Francis Beeding wrote over thirty novels, five of which have been adapted into feature films. Of these, his 1927 work The House of Dr. Edwardes remains the best known, forming the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Spellbound. During the Second World War, Saunders and Palmer wrote cloak-and-dagger stories involving British efforts to combat the Nazis.
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