:What Really Happened
{{Short description|1926 novel}}
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What Really Happened is a 1926 crime novel by the British author Marie Belloc Lowndes.Stewart p.30 It was published in London by Hutchinson and in New York by Doubleday.Vinson p.450 In 1936 she adapted the novel into a stage play of the same title.Kabatchnik p.469 Lowndes based the story on the Bravo Murder Case, shifting the setting from the 1870s to the present day.Borowitz p.74
Television adaptation
In 1963 it was adapted as an episode of the eight series of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour featuring Anne Francis, Ruth Roman and Gladys Cooper.Wagner p.172
References
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Bibliography
- Borowitz, Albert. Blood & Ink: An International Guide to Fact-based Crime Literature. Kent State University Press, 2002.
- Kabatchnik, Amnon. Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection : an Annotated Repertoire. Scarecrow Press, 2010.
- Stewart, Victoria. Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Vinson, James. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan, 1982.
- Wagner, Laura. Anne Francis: The Life and Career. McFarland, 2011.
Category:Novels by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Category:Hutchinson (publisher) books
Category:Doubleday (publisher) books
Category:British mystery novels
Category:Novels set in England
Category:British novels adapted into plays
Category:British novels adapted into television shows
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