Question: Based on whose novel was a 1967 British film in which Roy Holder appeared?
Context: The Auction Block is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Laurence Trimble and starring Rubye De Remer.  The film was produced by Rex Beach, upon whose novel, "The Auction Block", the film is based.  It is not known whether the film currently survives. Christie Watson (born 1976) is a British novelist whose novel "Tiny Sunbirds Far Away" won the Costa First Novel Award in the 2011 Costa Book Awards.  Her second novel "Where Women Are Kings" also won critical praise and has been widely translated. Roy Holder (born 15 June 1946) is an English television actor who has appeared in various programmes including "Ace of Wands", "Z-Cars", "Spearhead", the "Doctor Who" serial "The Caves of Androzani" and "Sorry! " His first notable appearance on the screen was in the 1961 film "Whistle Down the Wind", and he then appeared in "The Taming of the Shrew" (1967), "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (1967), "Romeo and Juliet" (1968), "The Virgin Soldiers" (1969), "Loot" (1970), "Psychomania" (1973), "The Land That Time Forgot" (1975), "Trial by Combat" (1976) and "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977).  More recently, Roy played the part of Mr Hill in "Pride & Prejudice" (2005), and Gaffer Tom in "Robin Hood" (2010). Richard House is an author, film maker and artist whose novel The Kills was longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. Pretty Polly (also known as A Matter of Innocence) is a 1967 British film, directed by Guy Green and based on the short story, "Pretty Polly Barlow", by Noël Coward.  It stars Hayley Mills, Shashi Kapoor, Trevor Howard, and Brenda De Banzie.  The film is largely set in Singapore. Dan Vyleta is a German–Canadian writer, whose novel "The Crooked Maid" was shortlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize.  His first novel "Pavel & I" was published in 2008 and translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Dutch, Danish, Italian and Czech.  His second novel, "The Quiet Twin", was a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.  All three books gathered considerable critical acclaim and were widely reviewed by the Canadian, British and American press. Space Stories was a pulp magazine which published five issues from October 1952 to June 1953.  It was published by Standard Magazines, and edited by Samuel Mines.  Mines' editorial policy for "Space Stories" was to publish straightforward science fiction adventure stories.  Among the better-known contributors were Jack Vance, Gordon R. Dickson and Leigh Brackett, whose novel "The Big Jump" appeared in the February 1953 issue. The Vengeance of Fu Manchu is a 1967 British film directed by Jeremy Summers starring Christopher Lee, Horst Frank, Douglas Wilmer and Tsai Chin.  It was the third British/German Constantin Film co-production of the Fu Manchu series and the first to be filmed in Hong Kong.  It was generally released in the UK through Warner-Pathé (as support feature to the Lindsay Shonteff film "The Million Eyes of Sumuru") on 3 December 1967. Ruvim Isayevich Frayerman (Рувим Исаевич Фраерман, 22 September 1891, in Mogilyov, Russian Empire, – 28 March 1972, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet writer, poet, essayist and journalist.  A major component of the Socialist romanticism, Frayerman is best remembered as a children's literature author, whose novel "Wild Dog Dingo or the Tale of the First Love" (1939) became a popular Soviet film in 1962. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush is a 1967 British film made based on the novel of the same name by Hunter Davies.  It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.
Answer: Hunter Davies