Some Must Watch: The Spiral Staircase - Paperback

by Cecil Gingras (Introduction by), Ethel Lina White (Author)

This is a newly printed book via print on demand in a larger size 16 Font. There is good reason for this book to have been the basis for three movies named the Spiral Staircase. As Professor Sebastian Warren battens down the shutters and locks all the doors of their isolated country house, the eight occupants start to feel safe. Somewhere outside lurks a murderer of young girls, the latest only an earshot away. Is there really safety in numbers and what happens when their numbers start to dwindle? If you are able to pick this book up, will you be able to put it down? As a psychological thriller this is a masterpiece from a writer at her peak.

Author Biography

Ethel Lina White was born in the spring of 1876 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. She grew up with five sisters and five brothers. It was much to delight her lively imagination. She wrote three novels before her first mystery, the genre that she excelled in. Indeed, Some Must Watch was made in to the movie, the Spiral Staircase three times. Two of her other books were made in to thrillers. Alfred Hitchcock used "the Wheel Spins" for his movie "the Lady Vanishes" and John Houseman used her" They see in Darkness" for his movie, "the Unseen". Ms. White passed away in the summer of 1944 in Chiswick, near Kew Gardens, London.