Moss Rose (novel)
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Author | Marjorie Bowen |
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Language | English |
Genre | Mystery thriller |
Publisher | Heinemann |
Publication date | 1934 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type |
Moss Rose is a 1934 mystery novel by the British writer Marjorie Bowen, written under the pen name of Joseph Shearing.[1] It is based on the unsolved murder of Harriet Buswell in 1872.[2] The title refers to Moss Rose, a flowering plant.
Adaptations
It was adapted into the 1947 film Moss Rose directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature and Ethel Barrymore.[3]
References
- ^ Vinson p.92
- ^ Stewart, Victoria (24 August 2017). "Revisiting Victorian Sensations". Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age. Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 9781316510001.
- ^ Goble p.422
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Vinson, James. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan, 1982.
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