The Mystery of Number 47

The Mystery of Number 47

American first edition
Author	J. Storer Clouston
Original title	His First Offence
Language	English
Genre	Comedy mystery
Publisher	Mills & Boon (UK) Moffat, Yard & Co. (US)
Publication date	1912
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

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.

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]

References

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

Bibliography

• Blakeway, Claire. Jacques Prévert: Popular French Theatre and Cinema. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990.
• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• Royle, Trevor. Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature. Macmillan, 1984.