Paper Orchid is a 1948 crime novel by the British writer Arthur La Bern. He had made his name three years earlier with It Always Rains on Sunday and also enjoyed success with this novel set amongst newspaper journalists on Fleet Street.

Paper Orchid
AuthorArthur La Bern
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime thriller
PublisherMarlowe
Publication date
1948
Media typePrint

Film adaptation edit

It was adapted into a 1949 film of the same title directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Hugh Williams and Hy Hazell.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Goble p.270

Bibliography edit

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Mayer, Geoff. Roy Ward Baker. Manchester University Press, 2004.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.