Solid! Said the Earl

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Solid! Said the Earl
First edition
AuthorJohn Paddy Carstairs
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreComedy
PublisherHurst and Blackett
Publication date
1948
Media typePrint

Solid! Said the Earl is a 1948 comedy novel by the British writer John Paddy Carstairs, best known as a screenwriter and film director. An American serviceman unexpectedly inherits an English title and country estate.

Film adaptation[edit]

In 1955 it was made into the film A Yank in Ermine directed by Gordon Parry and starring Noelle Middleton and Diana Decker, with Carstairs adapting his own novel.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Goble p.73

Bibliography[edit]

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.