The House of Dr. Edwardes

{{short description|1927 novel by Francis Beeding}}

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{{Infobox book |

| name = The House of Dr. Edwardes

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| image = File:TheHouseOfDrEdwardes.jpg

| caption = First US edition (1928)

| author = Francis Beeding
(pseudonym for Hilary A. Saunders and John Palmer)

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| genre = Psychological Thriller

| publisher = Hodder & Stoughton (UK)
Little, Brown and Company (US)

| release_date = 1927

| media_type = Print (Hardback)

| pages = 308 pp

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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.