Title: The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham

Title: The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham Title Record # 827109
Author: Anthony Armstrong (1897-1976)
Date: 1957-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: kirkusreviews.com, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note:

A Doppelganger tale; filmed as The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) --SFE3
"The Case of Mr. Pelham" is a short story by Armstrong with several publications listed in The FictionMags Index (FMI). The earliest is November 1940 in Esquire 14:5 #84 (FMI contents incomplete). Evidently from FMI page numbers, it was a 3-page story in the "large slick" Britannia and Eve 44:1 (Jan 1952) and a 15-page story in the "digest" Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 25:6 (Jun 1955), both unillustrated.
Wikipedia states as of 2018-03-04: "The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham is a 1940 novel (later in book form in 1957) ... It was made into an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents which originally aired December 4, 1955, under the title "The Case of Mr. Pelham". Evidently the earlier short story was adapted as the Hitchcock episode.

Synopsis:

"Conservative, cautious James M. Pelham, who leads an orderly bachelor life, is disconcerted by the evidence that he seems to have a double, and increasingly disturbed when this unknown man makes more frequent encroachments on his life, passes himself off at his club, in his office, at his home. His secretary is seduced, his manservant corrupted, and finally Pelham confronts his counterfeiter in a desperate attempt to retrieve his identity. ... A tantalizer – which does not give pause except to wonder." --contemporary review, quoted in full (KirkusReviews.com)

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham	1957-00-00	Anthony Armstrong (1897-1976)	Methuen		13/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	224	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham	1957-00-00	Anthony Armstrong (1897-1976)	The Ryerson Press		C$2.50^?C$: Canadian dollar	224	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham	1957-00-00	Anthony Armstrong (1897-1976)	Crime Club / Doubleday		C$3.50^?C$: Canadian dollar	192	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Tony Palladino
The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham	1957-02-07	Anthony Armstrong (1897-1976)	Crime Club / Doubleday		$2.95^?$: US dollar	192	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Tony Palladino
The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham	1979-00-00	Anthony Armstrong (1897-1976)	Remploy	0-7066-0826-7		224	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel

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