First published in 1957 The Strange Case of Mr Pelham is Anthony Armstrong’s masterclass in suspense, a slow-burning examination of one man’s descent into paranoia.

Filmed several times for television in both the UK for the BBC, and in the US as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Armstrong’s Pelham eventually hit the big screen in 1970 as the movie The Man Who Haunted Himself, starring Roger Moore.

Reissued here for the first time in more than half a century, this classic period piece is set to bring one of the great 20^th century thriller writers to a new generation of admirers.

ABOUT the Author…

George Anthony Armstrong Willis (1897–1976) was a British author known for writing in several literary genres, including historical, humorous, crime, and country novels; humorous short stories; drama; non-fiction works; and film and radio scripts. He began writing regularly for Punch in 1924 under the initials AA, having already been using the pen name Anthony Armstrong. From the 1930s through the 1960s he wrote several novels and also many humorous works and plays, some of which were adapted for radio. During his writing career he was published in The New Yorker, Country Fair, The Strand, The Daily Mail, The Evening News and The Sunday Chronicle.

Armstrong contributed to the screenplay of Alfred Hitchcock’s Young and Innocent (1937). Several of his own novels were adapted into films including The Strange Case of Mr Pelham, which was made into a first-season episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (and directed by Hitchcock), and the film The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) starring Roger Moore. During his lifetime he was a member of the Savage Club and received the Military Cross (1916) and the Order of the British Empire (1944). He died February 10, 1976 in England.