What Really Happened

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]

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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.

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