Francis Beeding

A pseudonym for co-authors Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Leslie Palmer. >They were Oxford graduates who met while at the League of Nations in Geneva. Palmer was a drama critic who wrote books on the theatre under the pseudonym "Christopher Haddon". >Saunders served with the Welsh Guards in WWI and worked for the Air Ministry in WWII, writing the famous pamphlet, *The Battle of Britain*. From 1946 to 1950 he was librarian of the House of Commons. >They also wrote mainstream fiction under the name David Pilgrim. >Beeding has over thirty novels to his credit, five of which have been adapted into feature films. Of these, *The House of Dr. Edwardes* remains the best known, as it formed the basis of Alfred Hitchcock's film *Spellbound*.

• Death Walks in Eastrepps
• The house of Dr. Edwardes
• The Norwich Victims
• Pretty sinister
• The hidden kingdom
• The seven sleepers
• The ten holy horrors
• The league of discontent
• The little white hag
• The nine waxed faces
• The six proud walkers
• Death in four letters