What Really Happened

What Really Happened

Author	Marie Belloc Lowndes
Language	English
Genre	Mystery crime
Publisher	Hutchinson Doubleday (US)
Publication date	1926
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

What Really Happened is a 1926 crime novel by the British author Marie Belloc Lowndes. ^[1] It was published in London by Hutchinson and in New York by Doubleday. ^[2] In 1936 she adapted the novel into a stage play of the same title. ^[3] Lowndes based the story on the Bravo Murder Case, shifting the setting from the 1870s to the present day. ^[4]

Television adaptation

In 1963 it was adapted as an episode of the eight series of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour featuring Anne Francis, Ruth Roman and Gladys Cooper. ^[5]

References

1. Stewart p.30
2. Vinson p.450
3. Kabatchnik p.469
4. Borowitz p.74
5. Wagner p.172

Bibliography

• Borowitz, Albert. Blood & Ink: An International Guide to Fact-based Crime Literature. Kent State University Press, 2002.
• Kabatchnik, Amnon. Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection : an Annotated Repertoire. Scarecrow Press, 2010.
• Stewart, Victoria. Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• Vinson, James. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan, 1982.
• Wagner, Laura. Anne Francis: The Life and Career. McFarland, 2011.