Murder Mysteries, Thriller Novels, Detective Tales, Horror Stories & Biography: The Lodger, The Chink in the Armour, What Timmy Did, The Story of Ivy, Studies in Love and Terror, King Edward VII…
Murder Mysteries, Thriller Novels, Detective Tales, Horror Stories & Biography: The Lodger, The Chink in the Armour, What Timmy Did, The Story of Ivy, Studies in Love and Terror, King Edward VII…
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of Marie Belloc Lowndes" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Novels: The Lodger The Chink in the Armour The End of Her Honeymoon Love and Hatred What Timmy Did What Really Happened The Story of Ivy From Out the Vast Deep Good Old Anna The Red Cross Barge The Heart of Penelope Barbara Rebell Jane Oglander The Uttermost Farthing Short Stories: Studies in Wives Althea's Opportunity Mr. Jarvice's Wife A Very Modern Instance According to Meredith Shameful Behaviour? The Decree Made Absolute Studies in Love and Terror Price of Admiralty The Child St. Catherine's eve The Woman from Purgatory Why they Married Biography: His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII
Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes, (1868 - 1947), was a prolific English novelist. Active from 1898 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incident with psychological interest. Her most famous novel, The Lodger (1913), based on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, has been adapted for the screen five different times; the first movie version was Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), followed by Maurice Elvey's in 1932, John Brahm's in 1944, Man in the Attic in 1953, and David Ondaatje's in 2009. Another novel of hers, Letty Lynton (1931), was the basis for the 1932 motion picture of the same name starring Joan Crawford. In this book: Good Old Anna Barbara Rebell Love and hatred Jane Oglander The Red Cross Barge What Timmy Did
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Marie Belloc Lowndes wich are Barbara Rebell and From Out the Vasty Deep. Marie Belloc Lowndes was a prolific English novelist, and sister of author Hilaire Belloc. Active from 1898 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incidents with psychological interest. Novels selected for this book: - Barbara Rebell - From Out the Vasty DeepThis is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
This unique British murder mysteries collection has been meticulously edited and designed to the highest digital standards. Contents: The Lodger The Chink in the Armour The End of Her Honeymoon Love and Hatred From Out the Vast Deep What Timmy Did What Really Happened The Story of Ivy Good Old Anna The Uttermost Farthing The Heart of Penelope Studies in Love and Terror Price of Admiralty The Child St. Catherine's eve The Woman from Purgatory Why they Married
The Lodger was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller, and a remarkable film it is. But the story Hitchcock tells -- of young love and mistaken identity (and is that a mistake, or malicious accusation by a rival. . . ?) -- is very different from Lowndes's tale, a story of an elderly couple with a strange and unsettling tenant -- a man with peculiar habits who may be the Ripper himself. . . .
Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes, (1868 - 1947), was a prolific English novelist. Active from 1898 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incident with psychological interest. Her most famous novel, The Lodger (1913), based on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, has been adapted for the screen five different times; the first movie version was Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), followed by Maurice Elvey's in 1932, John Brahm's in 1944, Man in the Attic in 1953, and David Ondaatje's in 2009. Another novel of hers, Letty Lynton (1931), was the basis for the 1932 motion picture of the same name starring Joan Crawford. Born in Marylebone, London and raised in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, Mrs Belloc Lowndes was the only daughter of French barrister Louis Belloc and English feminist Bessie Parkes. Her younger brother was Hilaire Belloc, whom she wrote of in her last work The Young Hilaire Belloc (published posthumously in 1956). Her paternal grandfather was the French painter Jean-Hilaire Belloc and her maternal great-great-grandfather was Joseph Priestley. In 1896 she married Frederick Sawrey A. Lowndes (1868-1940). In this book: The Lodger The Story of Ivy The End of Her Honeymoon Studies in love and in terror The Chink in the Armour The Uttermost Farthing From Out the Vasty Deep
A small, shiny, pink card lay on the round table in Sylvia Bailey's sitting-room at the Hôtel de l'Horloge in Paris.She had become quite accustomed to finding one or more cards—cards from dressmakers, cards from corset-makers, cards from hairdressers—lying on her sitting-room table, but there had never been a card quite like this card.Although it was pink, it looked more like a visiting-card than a tradesman's advertisement, and she took it up with some curiosity. It was inscribed "Madame Cagliostra," and underneath the name were written the words "Diseuse de la Bonne Aventure," and then, in a corner, in very small black letters, the address, "5, Rue Jolie, Montmartre."A fortune-teller's card? What an extraordinary thing!
I'm telling the man we're not in any hurry, and that he can take us round by the Boulevards. I won't have you seeing Paris from an ugly angle the first time—darling!""But Jack? It's nearly midnight! Surely there'll be nothing to see on theBoulevards now?""Won't there? You wait and see—Paris never goes to sleep!"And then—Nancy remembered it long, long afterwards—something very odd and disconcerting happened in the big station yard of the Gare de Lyon. The horse stopped—stopped dead. If it hadn't been that the bridegroom's arm enclosed her slender, rounded waist, the bride might have been thrown out.The cabman stood up in his seat and gave his horse a vicious blow across the back."Oh, Jack!" Nancy shrank and hid her face in her husband's arm. "Don't let him do that! I can't bear it!
Out of the London fog, a mysterious stranger arrives on the Buntings' doorstep seeking lodgings and a kindly ear--but a horrifying secret lurks behind his gentlemanly facade. Can Mrs Bunting uncover the true nature of his strange obsessions and avert looming disaster for her family? Marie Belloc Lowndes's psychological thriller The Lodger (1913) was the first novelization of the infamous and still-unsolved Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. The novel transformed a sordid story of the London streets into a taut domestic tale of conflicted motivations, uncertain loyalty, and slow-burning terror. Lowndes, a contemporary--and rival--of Agatha Christie, adopted and subverted the detective fiction genre in order to explore women's roles within the family and within larger society in ways that still resonate strongly today. This scholarly edition revives a pivotal text by an undervalued late-Victorian and early twentieth-century author, and adds to an understanding of that transformational literary period. This edition brings together, for the first time, Lowndes' 1913 novel and the 1911 short story upon which it was based, providing new transcriptions of the texts alongside facsimiles of Henry Raleigh's original illustrations. A critical introduction offers historical, thematic, and biographical context drawn from new archival research, as well as an exhaustive bibliography of Lowndes's published work.
Novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, and journalist Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) was one of the most prolific and bestselling writers of her day. Unlike her contemporary and sometime-rival Agatha Christie, she is now largely unknown and almost entirely out of print. This collection of short stories brings Lowndess most popular, distinctive, and culturally and artistically significant works of short fiction to modern audiences for the first time. These stories are selected from various periods in Lowndess writing life, varied publication venues, and different genres. Each demonstrates her subtlety and skill as a story-teller, as well as her pervasive thematic interest in gender issues, the trials of marriage, and the nature of criminality.
The beautiful light-haired, blue-eyed Sylvia Bailey -- married at 19, and already a widow at 25 -- is enjoying life on her own in Paris. She even carries with her a symbol of the freedom she feels: a string of pearls -- a superb necklace she wears nearly everywhere she goes . . . Yet those pearls will take her to the brink of disaster -- and propel her new, dear friend well beyond Lowndes (1868-1947), sister to Hilaire Belloc, wrote both historical novels and murder mysteries, with "The Chink in the Armor" ranking among her finest.
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