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Ethel Lina White (2 April 1876 – 13 August 1944) was a British crime writer from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. She was best known for her novel The Wheel Spins (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock 1938 film The Lady Vanishes was based.
Dec 11, 2021 · Crime writer Ethel Lina White even aided revered British director Alfred Hitchcock when his film based on one of her books helped him launch his Hollywood career. Yet nearly 80 years after...
Ethel Lina White has 108 books on Goodreads with 15601 ratings. Ethel Lina White’s most popular book is The Lady Vanishes.
May 17, 2023 · I was thrilled when she chose to talk about The Lady Vanishes, a 1936 novel by British mystery writer Ethel Lina White that I’d heard of but had never read. In our interview below, we talk about how to keep a reader hanging, the difference between a twist and a reveal, and why a train may be the perfect metaphor for suspense.
Ethel Lina White was a British crime writer, best known for her novel The Wheel Spins (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes (1938), was based, and Some Must Watch (1933), on which the film The Spiral Staircase (1946) was based.
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Born in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales in 1876, Ethel Lina White was one of the best known crime writers in Britain and the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. Her novel "The Wheel Spins" (1936), was the basis for the Alfred Hitchcock 1938 film The Lady Vanishes (1938).
