by Ethel Lina White · Oxford University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194242240
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«The Lady Vanishes» is the mystery novel by Ethel Lina White, published by Oxford University Press in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Iris, a young Englishwoman on vacation in the Balkans, befriends Miss Froy, a middle-aged governess. When Miss Froy disappears on the train back to England, a doctor assures Iris she never existed. Determined to get to the bottom of it, Iris becomes caught up in a web of secret agents and false identities.
The story was originally published in 1936 as The Wheel Spins; this edition, adapted by Jennifer Brain, belongs to Oxford's Alpha Books series of graded readers.
Intended for students of English as a foreign language, it allows them to practice the language with a classic of mystery.
Ethel Lina White was a British crime writer from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. She was best known for her novel The Wheel Spins (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock 1938 film The Lady Vanishes was based.
