For Them That Trespass (novel)

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For Them That Trespass
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First US edition
Author Ernest Raymond
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
Publisher Cassell (UK)
E. P. Dutton (US)
Publication date
1944
Media typePrint

For Them That Trespass is a 1944 thriller novel by the British writer Ernest Raymond. Christopher Drew, a respected writer and family man, faces ruin when a past affair with a London prostitute threatens to come out.

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Film adaptation

In 1949 it was adapted into a film of the same title directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and starring Stephen Murray, Richard Todd , and Patricia Plunkett. [1]

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References

  1. Goble p.383

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