Selwyn Jepson

Selwyn Jepson (* 1899 ; † 1989 in Farther Commons , East Hampshire , England ) was a British writer.

Life

Jepson was a son of the writer Edgar Alfred Jepson and his wife Frieda Holmes. His maternal grandfather was the musician Henry Holmes ; his sister Margaret , also a writer, was the mother of Fay Weldon .

Jepson received his training at St. Paul's School in London and at the Sorbonne in Paris . During World War I he served in the Royal Tank Regiment and during World War II he served as a recruiting officer for the Special Operations Executive (SOE).

Works

prose

• The angry millionaire . 1968.
• The assassin . 1956.
• The death gong . 1927.
• That fellow MacArthur . 1923.
• Golden-Eyes . 1922.
• Heads and tails. Short stories . 1933.
• I met murder . 1930.
• The King's red-haired girl . 1923.
• Letter to a dead girl . 1971.
• Love and Helen . 1928.
• Love in peril . 1934.
• Man dead . 1951.
• Man running .
• A noise in the night . 1957.
• Puppets of fate . 1922.
• The qualified adventurer . 1922.
• Rabbit's paw . 1932.
• Rivera love story . 1948.
• Rogues and diamonds . 1925.
• Snaggletooth . 1926.
• Tempering steel . 1949.
• The third possibility . 1965.
• Tiger dawn . 1929.
• The wise fool . 1934.

Scripts

• Leslie Arliss (Director): Forever my heart . 1954.
• Alex Bryce (Director): Wrath of jealousy . 1936.
• Lance Comfort (Director): The last moment . 1954.
• Carmine Gallone (Director): For love of you . 1933.
• Sonnie Hale (Director): Sailing along . 1938.
• Michael Harkinson (Director): The Scarab murder case . 1936 (based on the novel of the same name by SS Van Dine ).
• Sinclair Hill (Director): Hyde Park Corner . 1935.
• Lawrence Huntington (Director): The red dress . 1954.
• Selwyn Jepson (Director): Toilers of the sea . 1936 (based on Victor Hugo ).
• Albert Parker (Director): The Riverside murder . 1935.
• Michael Powell (Director): The love test . 1935.
• Frank Richardson (Director): Money mad . 1934.

Film adaptations

• Alfred Hitchcock (Director): The red Lola (Original title: Stage fright ). 1950 (based on the novel "Man running")

literature

• Armin Arnold u. a. (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010278-2 , p. 210.