What Really Happened
| Author | Marie Belloc Lowndes |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Mystery crime |
| Publisher | Hutchinson Doubleday (US) |
Publication date | 1926 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
What Really Happened is a 1926 crime novel by the British author Marie Belloc Lowndes.[1] It was published in London by Hutchinson and in New York by Doubleday.[2] In 1936 she adapted the novel into a stage play of the same title.[3] Lowndes based the story on the Bravo Murder Case, shifting the setting from the 1870s to the present day.[4]
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.[5]
References
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.