Born on this day – Arthur Somers Roche:

 

Arthur Somers Roche

Writer

April 27, 1883 – February 17, 1935

Credits:

Books:

A Lady of Resource (1938); Among Those Present (1930); Callingham's Girl (1937); Come to My House (1927); Conspiracy (1934); Death Was a Wedding Guest (1942); Devil-may-care (1926); Find the Woman (1921); Hard to Get (1937); Honest Crook (1941); In The Money (1936); Loot (1916); Marriage For Two (1929); No Stockings (1928); Penthouse (1935); Plunder (1917); Ransom! (1918); Shadow Of Doubt (1935); Slander (1933); The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1934); The Eyes of the Blind (1919); The Great Abduction (1933); The Pleasure Buyers (1925); The Sport Of Kings (1917); The Star of Midnight (1940); The Woman Hunters (1929); The Wrong Wife (1932); Uneasy Street (1920).

Movies and television:

Any Woman (1925); Come to My House (1927); Find the Woman (1922); Finger Prints (1927); Kissed (1922); Living Lies (1922); Loot (1919); Man, Woman and Wife (1929); Over the Wire (1921); Penthouse (1933); Shadow of Doubt (1935); Society Lawyer (1939); Star of Midnight (1935); The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936); The Day of Faith (1923); The Girl from Chicago (1927); The Gray Ghost (1917); The Gray Ghost (1917); The Mystery Club (1926); The Pleasure Buyers (1925); The Simp (1920); The Sport of Kings (1920); The Wise Wife (1927); Trail's End (1922); Wolf's Clothing (1927).

Recommended reading - The Star of Midnight

The Star of Midnight

by Arthur Somers Roche.

Filmed as Star of Midnight (1935), directed by Stephen Roberts.

Hardcover.

Published by Dodd, Mead and Company.
Published 1935.

ASIN: B0DM1RR9L9
 
Description:

After his girlfriend, Alice, goes missing, young Tim Winthrop consults with his friend, criminal lawyer Clay Dalzell. Clay, joined by his fiancée, Donna Mantin, agrees to help -- only to get involved with the simultaneous disappearance of stage actress Mary Smith, and the shocking murder of a gossip columnist poised to provide vital information about Mary. An unsolved gangster murder and the reappearance of an old flame lead Clay further into the puzzling maze.