What Really Happened


What Really Happened is a 1926 crime novel by the British author Marie Belloc Lowndes. It was published in London by Hutchinson and in New York by Doubleday. In 1936 she adapted the novel into a stage play of the same title. Lowndes based the story on the Bravo Murder Case, shifting the setting from the 1870s to the present day.

Television adaptation

In 1963 it was adapted as an episode of the eight series of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour featuring Anne Francis, Ruth Roman and Gladys Cooper.