''The Midas Touch'' is a 1938 novel by the British writer
Margaret Kennedy. It was her eighth novel, she then took a decade-long break before producing her next work ''
The Feast
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'' in 1950. It was a ''
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'' Book of the Month.
Synopsis
Evan Jones, a charismatic young Welshman used to living off his wits arrives in London and falls into the orbit of Corris Morgan, a business tycoon and Bessie Carter Blake a fraudulent
psychic.
Film adaptation
In 1940 it was adapted into a
film of the same title directed by
David MacDonald and starring
Barry K. Barnes
Barry K. Barnes (27 December 190612 January 1965) was an English film and stage actor. The son of Horatio Nelson Barnes and Anne Mackintosh Barnes, he was born and died in London. He appeared in sixteen films between 1936 and 1947. He played Sir ...
,
Judy Kelly and
Frank Cellier.
[Goble p.256]
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
* Hartley, Cathy. ''A Historical Dictionary of British Women''. Routledge, 2013.
* Vinson, James. ''Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers''. Macmillan, 1982.
* Stringer, Jenny & Sutherland, John. ''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English''. Oxford University Press, 1996.
1938 British novels
Novels by Margaret Kennedy
Novels set in London
Cassell (publisher) books
British novels adapted into films
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