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Foul Play is an 1869melodramatic orsensation novel by the British writerCharles Reade. InVictorian Britain a clergyman is wrongly convicted of a crime andtransported to Australia. He is shipwrecked with an aristocratic woman on the hitherto uncharted "Godsend Island" in the South Pacific. Eventually he is rescued and vindicated of his crime.
In 1914 it served as the basis for the AmericanThe Ticket-of-Leave Man. In 1920 the novel was adapted into a silent filmFoul Play directed byEdwin J. Collins and starringRenee Kelly andHenry Hallett.
The residents ofEdward Everett Hale's "The Brick Moon" ask Earth aboutFoul Play's ending, which they missed when launched into space.
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