The Mystery of Number 47

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The Mystery of Number 47
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American first edition
Author J. Storer Clouston
Original titleHis First Offence
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreComedy mystery
Publisher Mills & Boon (UK)
Moffat, Yard & Co. (US)
Publication date
1912
Media typePrint

The Mystery of Number 47 is a 1912 comedy mystery thriller novel by the British writer J. Storer Clouston. Living in a quiet suburb of London and writing detective novels under an assumed name, Irwin Molyneux is suddenly drawn into a real-life case when he is sought by Scotland Yard for the murder of his wife due to a series of misunderstandings. It was originally published in London by Mills & Boon under the title His First Offence.

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Adaptation

In 1917 it was adapted into an American silent film The Mystery of No. 47 directed by Otis B. Thayer and starring Ralph C. Herz and Casson Ferguson. [1] In 1937 a French film Bizarre, Bizarre directed by Marcel Carné and starring Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay and Michel Simon. [2]

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References

  1. Goble p.87
  2. Blakeway p.126

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