The Wheel Spins (The Lady Vanishes)

✍ Scribed by White, Ethel Lina

• Book ID: 108650642
• Publisher: RosettaBooks
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 112 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780795323454

✦ Synopsis

Best known as the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's classic film The Lady Vanishes , Ethel White's book The Wheel Spins is a gripping and accomplished work in its own right. The plot is deceptively simple and the premise is classic: a woman meets a mysterious stranger during a long railway journey. It's easy to see in this novel what Hitchcock found so compelling and so well-suited to his particular brand of filmmaking.

The protagonist of the story is Iris Carr, who suffers a blackout just before boarding a train that is traveling across Europe to London. On board the train, the still-woozy Iris befriends a certain Mrs. Froy, a fellow Englishwoman who is perhaps a bit eccentric but seems to be for the most part agreeable and benign. Mrs. Froy is the "vanishing lady" of Hitchcock's title, and it is Mrs. Froy who mysteriously disappears while Iris is napping. Her inexplicable departure throws Iris into a mind-bending mystery that will make her alternately question her...