Moss Rose
First edition
AuthorMarjorie Bowen
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreMystery thriller
PublisherHeinemann
Publication date
1934
Media typePrint

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

  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

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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