The Midas Touch (novel)

The Midas Touch

First edition (UK)
Author	Margaret Kennedy
Language	English
Genre	Drama
Publisher	Cassell (UK) Random House (US)
Publication date	1938
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

The Midas Touch is a 1938 novel by the British writer Margaret Kennedy. ^{[1] [2]} It was her eighth novel, she then took a decade-long break before producing her next work The Feast in 1949. It was a Daily Mail Book of the Month.

Synopsis

Evan Jones, a charismatic young Welshman used to living off his wits arrives in London and falls into the orbit of Corris Morgan, a business tycoon and Bessie Carter Blake a fraudulent psychic.

Film adaptation

In 1940 it was adapted into a film of the same title directed by David MacDonald and starring Barry K. Barnes, Judy Kelly and Frank Cellier. ^[3]

References

1. Vinson p.403
2. Stringer & Sutherland p.358
3. Goble p.256

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• Hartley, Cathy. A Historical Dictionary of British Women. Routledge, 2013.
• Vinson, James. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan, 1982.
• Stringer, Jenny & Sutherland, John. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English. Oxford University Press, 1996.