Paper Orchid (novel)

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Paper Orchid
Author Arthur La Bern
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime thriller
PublisherMarlowe
Publication date
1948
Media typePrint

Paper Orchid is a 1948 crime novel by the British writer Arthur La Bern. He had made his name three years earlier with It Always Rains on Sunday and also enjoyed success with this novel set amongst newspaper journalists on Fleet Street.

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Film adaptation

It was adapted into a 1949 film of the same title directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Hugh Williams and Hy Hazell. [1]

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References

  1. Goble p.270

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