Marie Belloc Lowndes

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This entertaining group of eight essays concerning great crimes of murder reveals the author's affinity, not only with the wellsprings of human passion, but also with the means of bringing them into lucid focus, using the slow unfolding of telling detail. Marie Belloc Lowndes made her name with murder. Her most famous book was a hugely successful novel, The Lodger, based upon the awful deeds of Jack the Ripper, which has been filmed many times. In this book she recounts eight terrible crimes which took place in France, Scotland, England, Algeria and Belgium, underscoring with clear journalistic ease cases of appalling passion, misplaced devotion, secret alliances, unbearable greed and corrosive fear of exposure. Underlying all of these cases is mystery. In one way or another, all of them had elements which initially baffled analysts; they remained partially unsolved, or at least contested, and were in some cases only concluded by the discovery of one tiny detail. Some remain mysteries to this day. This splendidly readable compendium was first published in 1914.

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"Good Old Anna" is an ancient historical fiction story book written by Marie Belloc Lowndes. Set in the starting of the 20th century, the novel follows Anna Rolfe, a devoted home who becomes enmeshed in the lives of the wealthy Wrayburns. "Good Old Anna" is largely a man or woman-pushed drama about devotion, responsibility, and the passingtime. Lowndes gives a bright example of a girl whose life is characterized with the aid of the ties she forms with the ones round her, emphasizing Anna's ongoing loyalty to her employers and quiet resiliency within the face of hard times. As the story progresses, sitevisitors are drawn into Anna's the universe, as well witnessing the Wrayburn own family's triumphs and sorrows, in addition to Anna's main have an effect on them. Through its blend of happy tale and timeless mind, "Good Old Anna" is an attaching examine that remains with readers long when they've look at the book. Lowndes' exceptional narrative and deep information into the human scenario increase the work to literary altitudes. With its finely portrayed characters and evocative prose, "Good Old Anna" offers an attaching peek right into a bygonetime body and the timeless rules that also resonate these days.

One of Lowndes' most famous novels. It portrays Ivy Jervis, a beautiful but ambitious young woman whose frustrations with her impoverished husband push her to murder him, and let the blame fall on another. "This is one of Mrs. Lowndes's best stories. It has a strong vein of mystery and sensation, and yet gives us a variety of true characterization and some shrewd commentary on modern life."-Spectator, November 1927

A Novel of mystery, romance, and the paranormal awaits the reader in this monumental work by Marie Belloc Lowndes. Ghosts and seances abound. It was not Varick who told Blanche Farrow of that painful incident of his past life. Classic Horror from one of the best and earliest of the genre.

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