Rebecca (1940 film) not revealed at all. The only thing we know about her is that she came to Manderley when Rebecca was a bride. The Breen Office, Hollywood's censorship board, specifically prohibited any outright hint of a lesbian infatuation or relationship between Mrs. Danvers and Rebecca, though the film clearly does dwell on Danvers' obsessive memories of her late mistress. "The Hollywood Reporter" reported in 1944 that Edwina Levin MacDonald sued Selznick, Daphne du Maurier, United Artists and Doubleday for plagiarism. MacDonald claimed that the film "Rebecca" was stolen from her novel "Blind Windows", and sought an undisclosed amount of accounting and
English novel been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Among popular novelists Daphne Du Maurier wrote "Rebecca", a mystery novel, in 1938 and W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) "Of Human Bondage" (1915), a strongly autobiographical novel, is generally agreed to be his masterpiece. In genre fiction Agatha Christie was an important writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Christie's novels include "Murder on the Orient Express" (1934), "Death on the Nile" (1937), and "And Then There Were None" (1939). Another popular writer during the Golden Age of detective fiction