Solid! Said the Earl is a 1948 comedy novel by the British writer John Paddy Carstairs, best known as a screenwriter and film director. An American serviceman unexpectedly inherits an English title and country estate.

Solid! Said the Earl
First edition
AuthorJohn Paddy Carstairs
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreComedy
PublisherHurst and Blackett
Publication date
1948
Media typePrint

Film adaptation edit

In 1955 it was made into the film A Yank in Ermine directed by Gordon Parry and starring Noelle Middleton and Diana Decker, with Carstairs adapting his own novel.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Goble p.73

Bibliography edit

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