The House of Dr. Edwardes
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20th November 2025
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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9789357310925
The book that had everybody ‘spellbound’
The House of Dr. Edwardes is a psychological thriller novel about a psychiatrist at an asylum (the eponymous ‘House’). The House is due to get a new director. The new incumbent – the handsome Dr Murchison, author of several books on psychiatry – is giving his predecessor the great Dr. Edwardes a break. Murchison is attracted to the newbie doctor Constance Sedgwick. But is everything all it seems and is Murchison himself what he claims to be?
The novel was adapted to film in 1945 as Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound.
The House of Dr. Edwardes is a psychological thriller novel about a psychiatrist at an asylum (the eponymous ‘House’). The House is due to get a new director. The new incumbent – the handsome Dr Murchison, author of several books on psychiatry – is giving his predecessor the great Dr. Edwardes a break. Murchison is attracted to the newbie doctor Constance Sedgwick. But is everything all it seems and is Murchison himself what he claims to be?
The novel was adapted to film in 1945 as Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound.
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