Ethel Lina White

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Ethel Lina White (1876 - 1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel, The Wheel Spins, on which the film, The Lady Vanishes, was based.

Born in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, 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. Her first three, published between 1927 and 1930, were mainstream novels. Her first crime novel, published in 1931, was Put Out the Light.

She died in London.

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• The Wish-Bone (1927)
• 'Twill Soon Be Dark (1929)
• The Eternal Journey (1930)
• Put Out the Light (1931)
• Fear Stalks the Village (1932)
• Some Must Watch (1933) (filmed in 1946 as The Spiral Staircase, remade for TV in 2000)
• Wax (1935)
• The First Time He Died (1935)
• The Wheel Spins (1936) (filmed in 1938 by Alfred Hitchcock as The Lady Vanishes, remade in 1979)
• The Third Eye (1937)
• The Elephant Never Forgets (1937)
• Step in the Dark (1938)
• While She Sleeps (1940)
• She Faded into Air (1941)
• Midnight House (U.S. title Her Heart in Her Throat, 1942) (filmed in 1945 as The Unseen)
• The Man Who Loved Lions (U.S. title The Man Who Was Not There, 1943)
• They See in Darkness (1944)