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GAS LIGHT: A VICTORIAN THRILLER IN THREE ACTS.
London: Constable and Company Ltd., [1939]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Text of the play which was later produced as feature films, the first in 1940, then again in 1944 which was directed by George Cukor starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman.
HANGOVER SQUARE OR THE MAN WITH TWO MINDS: A STORY OF DARKEST EARL'S COURT IN THE YEAR 1939.
New York: Random House, [1942]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-307 [308] [309-310: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], title page printed in green and black, original gray green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and silver, top edge stained black. First U.S. edition. A dark psychological novel in which the main character exhibits a dual personality. "Grim and powerful, this work is possibly the most valid fictional treatment and psychological study of the criminally insane." - Steinbrunner and Penzler, Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, p. 183. Filmed in 1945 with Laird Cregar, George Sanders and Linda Darnell. Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 1073. Hubin (1994), p. 368.