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Ethel Lina White


Born
in Abergavenny, Wales, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1876

Died
August 13, 1944

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


Ethel Lina White was a British crime writer, best known for her novel The Wheel Spins (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes (1938), was based, and Some Must Watch (1933), on which the film The Spiral Staircase (1946) was based.

Born in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1876, White started writing as a child, contributing essays and poems to children's papers. Later she began to write short stories, but it was some years before she wrote books.

She left employment in a government job working for the Ministry of Pensions in order to pursue writing. Her writing was to make her one of the best known crime writers in Britain and the USA during the 1930s and '40s.

Her first three works, published between 1927 and 1930, w ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 6,801 ratings · 1,223 reviews · 128 distinct works • Similar authors
The Lady Vanishes
3.75 avg rating — 2,921 ratings — published 1936 — 160 editions
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Some Must Watch
3.70 avg rating — 1,313 ratings — published 1933 — 128 editions
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Fear Stalks the Village
3.59 avg rating — 476 ratings — published 1932 — 146 editions
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While She Sleeps
3.55 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1940 — 33 editions
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Wax
3.58 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1935 — 77 editions
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3.86 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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British Mysteries Collectio...
3.79 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions
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Put Out the Light
3.83 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1931 — 17 editions
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Step in the Dark
3.31 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1938 — 58 editions
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She Faded into Air
3.48 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1941 — 106 editions
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“Lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for.”
― Ethel Lina White, The Lady Vanishes
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“Already she meant everything to him but he'd completely forgotten her name.”
― Ethel Lina White, The Lady Vanishes
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“The day before the disaster, Iris Carr had her first premonition of danger. She was used to the protection of a crowd, whom—with unconscious flattery—she called 'her friends'. An attractive orphan of independent means, she had been surrounded always with clumps of people.”
― Ethel Lina White, The Lady Vanishes
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