Ethel Lina White

• Feb-1987
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The ingenious classic thriller behind Hitchcock's famous film, set on a steam train travelling across 1930s Europe and boasting “intrigue, mystery, and spine-chilling horror” (Saturday Review)First published as The Wheel Spins in 1936 and adapted...

• Jul-2010
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First published in 1936 and adapted for the screen as The Lady Vanishes by Alfred Hitchcock in 1938, Ethel Lina White’s suspenseful mystery remains her best-known novel, worthy of acknowledgement as a classic of the genre in its own right.Then the ...

• Mar-2011
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Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a ...

• Jul-2014
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Ann Sherborne was putting herself in the power of a man who had planned a ghastly death! On a dismal moonless night Ann Sherborne comes to a reunion of her strange circle of college friends -- The Seven Sullied Souls. The rendezvous is the abandon...

• Mar-2015
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Anna, a young Englishwoman, is drawn to visit Russia partly out of interest, to see for herself the 'proletarian experiment', and partly by Otto, a glamorous but faithless newspaper editor. With nothing left now to keep her in Russia, she prepares to...

• Mar-2015
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Charlie Baxter has never been a success. Yes, he's popular with women, but he's not exactly a party guy. A cheerful loser, that's Charlie. He has even made a hash of his 'death'. For, having almost exhausted a legacy left to him by a rich aunt, he ha...

• Mar-2015
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The roar of a lion is not the kind of music one expects to hear at night in the stillness of the English countryside.Yet in the neighbourhood of 'Ganges', Sir Benjamin Watson's house, that terrifyingly wild sound is not uncommon. Sir Benjamin is rich...

• Mar-2015
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No. 11 India Crescent is officially a dead address. Its absentee owner, General Tygarth, and his wife are reported to be living abroad, but it is so long since they have been seen in the town that few remember them. Only one or two people recall its ...

• Mar-2015
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Oldtown is a picturesque, historic place, with a square of characterful houses nestling at its centre, and is home to retired colonial masters and friendly locals. A wealthy, reclusive sisterhood lives there too, in a large mansion, Cloisters; a grou...

• Mar-2015
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CAROLINE MUST ESCAPE FROM BAT HOUSE - A DARK PRISON FULL OF TERRIFYING FOOTSTEPS AND VOICES WHICH COULD NOT BE STILLED! Only Caroline possesses evidence that Miss Moore, the headmistress of the school at which she teaches, is a compulsive murderes...

• May-2015
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Behind the ominous walls of Jamaica Court, Anthea Vine rules as a provincial Queen Elizabeth, imperious and wealthy, vain and pathetic.But Anthea holds chained to her in financial dependence five discontented souls, all with a motive for murder. Her ...

• Jul-2015
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engThis novel, when originally published in 1936, was entitled The Wheel Spins. However, since the Alfred Hitchcock film adaptation in 1938, the novel has become better known by its 'Hollywood name' The Lady Vanishes. The novel tells of a beautiful E...

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Ethel Lina White was a prolific author, and became one of the best-known crime writers in Britain and the US during the thirties and forties. Though best-remembered for her novels Some Must Watch and The Wheel Spins, her short fiction was also huge...

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Joan adored her home in England until a sudden outbreak of poison-pen letters threatened everyone in the village with terror - and tragedy. From what ancient mansion did those letters come? Who was the secret killer who hid behind a smiling mask ...

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WOULD VIOLA GREEN BE THE NEXT VICTIM TO VANISH WITHIN THE SHADOWS OF MYSTERIOUS POMERANIA HOUSE? As Viola glanced into the darkened, misty mirror, she thought she saw not her own reflection, but the sinister face of a man. She spun around swift...

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Behind the ominous walls of Jamaica Court, Anthea Vine ruled as a provincial Queen Elizabeth, imperious and wealthy, vain and pathetic. She lived in an aura of illusion -- the illusion of her own fatal charms and her eternal powers of fascination. He...

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Prescription for terror... A lonely mansion, with its strangely assorted guests, and its terrible secret... The silhouette of a murderer, seen at twilight moving ever closer through the ancient elms... The frantic turnings of a beautiful ...

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SHE HAD EVERYTHING TO FEAR Suddenly beautiful Georgia Yeo realized that she was not the guest of her fiance, Count Gustav, on his lonely Swedish island - but his prisoner! Her terror was not for herself alone. She had brought her two young chil...

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A novel of a woman becoming possessed by the sinister events in the mansion adjoining her own--a mansion that had been empty for years. Every night she heard eerie sounds coming from the shuttered house. She lay in her bed terrified at the nearness o...

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THEY’RE ONLY WAX. THEY SHALL NOT FRIGHTEN ME. BUT THEY’RE TRYING TO. ONE BY ONE THEY’RE COMING TO LIFE… Despite her panic, Sonia Thompson, a young reporter, is determined to continue her lonely vigil in the dingy local waxworks, gruesomely...

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WHILE SHE SLEEPS! Has her famous luck run out on her -- for good? In the darkness, a killer rubs his gloved hands impatiently -- eager to murder her in her gloomy mansion… Miss Loveapple �" extremely lucky woman. She was always lucky in li...