The Wheel Spins

aka The Lady Vanishes

Ethel Lina White, Martin Edwards

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British Library
10 October 2023

Fiction & Literature; Classic crime

Series: British Library Crime Classics

Then the rhythm of the train changed, and she seemed to be sliding backwards down a long slope. Click-click-click- click. The wheels rattled over the rails, with a sound of castanets.

Travelling home from a European holiday, Iris Carr ends up alone at the station after a quarrel with her friends. Struck by a mysterious assailant and waking up just in time to board the train which will take her on her journey to London, things seem to be looking up after a chance meeting with the affable Miss Froy. But when Iris passes out and reawakens, Miss Froy is nowhere to be found. The other passengers deny any knowledge of her existence and as the train speeds across Europe, Iris spirals deeper and deeper into a strange conspiracy.

Adapted for the screen as The Lady Vanishes by Alfred Hitchcock in 1938, Ethel Lina White's suspenseful mystery remains her best-known novel, worthy of acknowledgement as a classic of the genre in its own right.

By: Ethel Lina White
Introduction by: Martin Edwards
Imprint: British Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 116
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 130mm,
ISBN: 9780712354882
ISBN 10: 0712354883
Series: British Library Crime Classics
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 10 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ethel Lina White (18761944) was an author from Abergavenny best known for her crime novels and short stories in the suspense and horror genres. Though most famous today as the author of The Wheel Spins, she was an influential figure in the Golden Age of crime fiction whose reputation, in her heyday, rivalled those of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers.