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Issue Details: First known date: 1928... 1928 Enter Sir John
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When young actress Diana Baring is convicted of the murder of a fellow actress, actor-manager Sir John Saumarez, convinced of her innocence, sets himself up as a private detective in order to prove her innocence before the execution is carried out.

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form y separately published work icon Murder! Walter Mycroft , Alfred Hitchcock , ( dir. Alfred Hitchcock ) United Kingdom (UK) : British International Pictures , 1930 6689170 1930 single work film/TV crime detective

An actor-manager sitting on the jury for the murder trial of actress Diana Baring becomes convinced of her innocence after she has been convicted and sentenced to hang: he works to uncover the real murderer before sentence is carried out.

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Not Suitable for Children : Alfred Hitchcock Films Helen Simpson's Australia Tanya Dalziell , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 126-132) Inside Story , October 2016;

''Helen Simpson’s Under Capricorn made a decades-long journey from novel to film to TV to DVD. Alfred Hitchcock’s version was a revealing stop-off along the way' 

Not Suitable for Children : Alfred Hitchcock Films Helen Simpson's Australia Tanya Dalziell , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 126-132) Inside Story , October 2016;

''Helen Simpson’s Under Capricorn made a decades-long journey from novel to film to TV to DVD. Alfred Hitchcock’s version was a revealing stop-off along the way' 

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