basis for several fictional and non-fictional works and depictions. The couple were the subject of waxworks at Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. Alfred Hitchcock expressed the wish to make a documentary film on the case, several times commenting that the Thompson and Bywaters case was the one he would most like to film. At the start of the 1920s Hitchcock had been taught to dance by Edith Thompson's father at the Golden Lane Institute, at a time when he worked for the Cable Car Company. His sister and Avis Graydon became close friends later, as they served in the same Catholic church in Leytonstone. Hitchcock exchanged Christmas cards with Avis Graydon but they never discussed the case. He asked his authorised biographer, John Russell Taylor, not to mention the case of Edith Thompson in case it caused her sister distress, even after all those years. Some aspects of the case have similarities to the plot of Hitchcock's film Stage Fright (1950). According to the ODNB's entry on the novelist E. M. Delafield, her 1924 novel Messalina of the Suburbs was based on the Thompson/Bywaters trial. She ends the novel before the verdict is announced. In 1934, F. Tennyson Jesse published A Pin to See the Peepshow, "a fictional account of the Thompson-Bywaters case despite the usual disclaimer at the front that all the characters are imaginary. The title refers to the children's entertainment at which (she) first met her lover-to-be". This was dramatised on TV in 1973 with Francesca Annis, John Duttine and Bernard Hepton playing characters based on Edith Thompson, Bywaters and Percy Thompson respectively. Annis received a nomination for British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. A play written in the 1930s by Frank Vosper, People Like Us, remained unperformed until 1948 when it premiered at the Wyndhams Theatre, London, in the West End. In the 1981 second season of the British television series Lady Killers, an episode called "The Darlingest Boy" dealt with the Thompson and Bywaters case. In it Edith Thompson was played by Gayle Hunnicutt while Frederick Bywaters was played by Christopher Villiers. In non-fiction, Lewis Broad wrote The Innocence of Edith Thompson: A Study in Old Bailey Justice in 1952. René Weis published a biography of Thompson, entitled Criminal Justice: The True Story of Edith Thompson, in 1988. In 1992 BBC Radio aired a drama about case called 'Darling Peidi', written by Shelagh Stephenson