Moss Rose (novel)

Moss Rose
	File:Moss Rose (novel).jpg First edition
Author	Marjorie Bowen
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Mystery thriller
Publisher	Heinemann
Publication date	1934
Media type	Print

Moss Rose is a 1934 mystery novel by the British writer Marjorie Bowen, written under the pen name of Joseph Shearing.^[1] It is based on the unsolved murder of Harriet Buswell in 1872.^[2] The title refers to Moss Rose, a flowering plant.

Adaptations

It was adapted into the 1947 film Moss Rose directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature and Ethel Barrymore.^[3]

References

^ Vinson p.92
^ Stewart, Victoria (24 August 2017). "Revisiting Victorian Sensations". Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age. Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 9781316510001.
^ Goble p.422

Bibliography

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Vinson, James. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan, 1982.

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[1] Vinson p.92

[2] Stewart, Victoria (24 August 2017). "Revisiting Victorian Sensations". Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age. Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 9781316510001.

[3] Goble p.422

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Moss Rose (novel)

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