really was that she had no secret—and his friend said he was certain of it. Lord Murchison ends with the reply: "I wonder." "The Model Millionaire" First published in The World in June 1887. Hughie Erskine is in love and wants to marry, but the girl's father will not allow it, since Erskine has no money. Erskine's friend Alan Trevor is a painter, and he visits him at his studio one day to find him with a pitiable beggar—the model for his painting. Erskine only has one coin, on which he depends for transportation, but he decides he can walk for a couple of weeks and gives the beggar the coin. The beggar is in reality an immensely wealthy baron, having a portrait of himself as a beggar done for fun. He is so impressed by Erskine's generosity that he gives him £10,000, enough for the girl's father to consent to his proposal. Adaptations Lord Arthur Savile's Crime was turned into a 1920 Hungarian film directed by Pál Fejös. It is also the basis of one of the three stories in Julien Duvivier's Flesh and Fantasy (1943) and became a BBC Radio 4 drama, starring Rupert Penry-Jones, in 2006. "Frasier-esque repartee abounds", reported Radio Times of the latter, "with a soupçon of Carry On… Of the starry cast, which includes Phyllida Law, most notable is David Bradley, playing Savile's butler as Norman Fletcher from Porridge." The story was adapted for the stage twice. First in 1952 by Constance Cox who retained the original title and second in 2006 by Rob Urbinati whose play is called Murder on West Moon Street. Both versions are published by Samuel French. In 1952 the story was adapted by Constance Cox into a play Lord Arthur Savile's Crime starring Claude Hulbert. In 1955, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime's formed the basis of the TV series Climax! episode A Promise to Murder. Cox's play was adapted into a 1960 episode of Armchair Theatre on the ITV network in the UK. "The Canterville Ghost" was, in 1944, made by Jules Dassin into a film of the same name with the same premise but an altered plot. The ghost was played by Charles Laughton. In 2021, Cox's play of Lord Arthur Savile's Crime is set to receive a comic book adaptation by Ultimato do Bacon Editora in Brazil. The adaptation is being written and penciled by Flavio Soares and