The Lady of Ascot

1930 novel

First edition (publ. Hutchinson)

The Lady of Ascot is a 1930 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It is a loose novelisation of Wallace's 1921 play M'Lady about a woman attempting to raise her daughter in high society whose plans are threatened by the return of her husband who has been serving a sentence at Broadmoor for the murder of a police officer.[1]

References

  1. ^ Kabatchnik p.171

Bibliography

  • Amnon Kabatchnik. Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection : an Annotated Repertoire. Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
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Edgar Wallace
Novels
Plays
  • An African Millionaire (1904)
  • M'Lady (1921)
  • Double Dan (1927)
  • The Terror (1927)
  • The Man Who Changed His Name (1928)
  • The Calendar (1929)
  • Persons Unknown (1929)
  • On the Spot (1930)
  • The Mouthpiece (1930)
  • Smoky Cell (1930)
  • The Old Man (1931)
Screenplays
  • The Valley of Ghosts (1928)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)
  • King Kong (1933)
Adaptations
J. G. Reeder
The Four Just Men
  • The Four Just Men (1921)
  • The Four Just Men (1939)
  • The Four Just Men (1959, TV series)
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
Rialto Films
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Television
  • Educated Evans (1957–58)
  • The Mixer (1992)
Family


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