The Strange Countess (novel)

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The Strange Countess
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Author Edgar Wallace
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date
1925
Media typePrint

The Strange Countess is a 1925 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. [1]

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Film adaptations

In 1961 it was the basis for the 1933 British film The Jewel and for a West German film The Strange Countess , part of a long-running series of Wallace adaptations by Rialto Film.

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References

  1. Goble p.488

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