Joseph Jefferson Farjeon was born in London, The United Kingdom June 04, 1883
And died on June 06, 1955 . He was an English crime and mystery novelist, playwright and screenwriter. One of Farjeon's best known works was a play, Number 17, which was made into a number of films, including Number Seventeen directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He also wrote the screenplay for Michael Powell's My Friend the King and provided the story for Bernard Vorhaus's The Ghost Camera.
Most of Farjeon's works had been forgotten, but the figure of Ben in Number 17 appeared again in a string of novels, including Ben on the Job , reissued in 1955 and 1985. The House Opposite , the first full-length original novel to feature Ben, is being reissued under the revived Collins Crime Club imprint in December 2015. The British Library reissued Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story in 2014, and two further novels in 2015: Thirteen Guests and The Z Murders. Mystery in White is also one of at least three of his novels to have appeared in Italian translations.Others appeared in German, French, and other languages.