Francis Beeding was the joint pseudonym of two British authors who collaborated on mystery and espionage stories: John Leslie Palmer (1885–1944) and Hilary Saint George Saunders (1898–1951). Together as Beeding, they published 31 novels, including The House of Dr. Edwardes, later used as the basis for the Hitchcock film Spellbound. The majority, beginning with The Seven Sleepers in 1925 and ending with Three are Thirteen in 1946, can be classified as spy novels.
The House of Dr. EdwardesSpellboundThe Seven SleepersThree are ThirteenUnder his own name, Palmer wrote extensively about early English actors and about British literary figures. He also wrote fiction in other genres under other pseudonyms, such as Christopher Haddon, David Pilgrim, and John Somers.
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