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Adaptations

It has been adapted into film twice: *''

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* '' Traitor's Gate'', a 1964 British-German film directed by Freddie Francis

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

Full text of ''The Traitor's Gate'' at Project Gutenberg Australia
1927 British novels Novels by Edgar Wallace British novels adapted into films Novels set in London Hodder & Stoughton books Doubleday, Page & Company books Tower of London {{1920s-crime-novel-stub