Ethel Lina White

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Ethel Lina White (* 1876 in Abergavenny , Wales ; † August 13, 1944 in London - Chiswick ) was a British short story and detective novel writer . The films by Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Siodmak based on their novels are best known in Germany .

Life

Ethel Lina White was born to the builder and inventor William White and his second wife Charlotte Eliza. She spent her childhood in Fairlea Grange , a house built by her father , the interior of which later shaped elements of her novel Some Must Watch . As a child she wrote texts and poems for children's magazines. She later wrote short stories before publishing her first novels.

After the end of World War I , she moved to London, where she worked in the Social Security Administration. She later gave up this activity in favor of writing. After three entertaining novels, she began to write crime novels that made her one of the most popular crime writers of her time. Some Must Watch (later under the title The Spiral Staircase ) and The Wheel Spins (later under the title The Wheel Spins and the Lady Vanishes ) in particular became popular, not least because of their prominent film adaptations.

Works

  • The Wish-Bone , 1927
  • Twill Soon Be Dark , 1929
  • The Eternal Journey , 1930
  • Put Out the Light , 1931
  • Fear Stalks the Village , 1932
  • Some Must Watch , 1933 (later as The Spiral Staircase , German Helen or the spiral staircase , Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-257-21640-8 )
  • Wax , 1935 (German Panoptikum , Leipzig 1938, and The Night in the Cabinet of Wax Figures , Munich 1978, most recently under ISBN 3-453-08886-7 )
  • The First Time He Died , 1935 ( when he died for the first time , Leipzig 1939)
  • The Wheel Spins , 1936 (later as The Wheel Spins and the Lady Vanishes ; German A Lady disappears , Munich 1975, most recently under ISBN 3-453-08220-6 )
  • The Third Eye , 1937
  • The Elephant Never Forgets , 1937
  • Step in the Dark , 1938
  • While She Sleeps , 1940
  • She Faded into Air , 1941
  • Midnight House , 1942
  • The Man Who Loved Lions , 1943
  • They See in Darkness , 1944

Film adaptations

  • 1938 - A lady vanishes ( The lady vanishes ) - directed by Alfred Hitchcock - based on the novel The Wheel Spins
  • 1945 - Death lives next door ( The unseen ) - Director: Lewis Allen - based on the novel Midnight House
  • 1945 - Die Wendeltreppe ( The spiral staircase ) - Director: Robert Siodmak - based on the novel Some Must Watch
  • 1974 - The spiral staircase - directed by Peter Collinson - based on the novel Some Must Watch
  • 1979 Deadly Message ( The Lady Vanishes ) - Director: Anthony Page - based on the novel The Wheel Spins
  • 1999 - The spiral staircase - directed by James Heads - based on the novel Some Must Watch

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Abergavenny People. Ethel Lina White: (1876-1944) ( Memento July 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ For sale: striking childhood home of leading Welsh crime writer who inspired Hitchcock's the Lady Vanishes. WalesOnline, April 9, 2014, accessed August 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME White, Ethel Lina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British short story and detective novel writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Abergavenny , Wales , GB
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1944
Place of death London - Chiswick , GB