The Midas Touch | |
Author: | Margaret Kennedy |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Drama |
Publisher: | Cassell (UK) Random House (US) |
Release Date: | 1938 |
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The Midas Touch is a 1938 novel by the British writer Margaret Kennedy.[1] [2] It was her eighth novel, she then took a decade-long break before producing her next work The Feast in 1949. It was a Daily Mail Book of the Month.
Evan Jones, a charismatic young Welshman used to living off his wits arrives in London and falls into the orbit of Corris Morgan, a business tycoon and Bessie Carter Blake a fraudulent psychic.
In 1940 it was adapted into a film of the same title directed by David MacDonald and starring Barry K. Barnes, Judy Kelly and Frank Cellier.[3]