The Collected Works of Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Collected Works of Marie Belloc Lowndes

Author: Marie Belloc Lowndes

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-11-18

Total Pages: 3067

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The Collected Works of Marie Belloc Lowndes is a captivating compilation of the renowned author's most acclaimed literary works. Lowndes' writing style is characterized by its subtle yet insightful exploration of themes such as mystery, psychology, and human nature. The stories in this collection are masterfully crafted, drawing readers in with their suspenseful plots and well-developed characters. Lowndes' ability to create a sense of tension and intrigue is unparalleled, making her a prominent figure in the genre of psychological fiction. Her works are a fascinating blend of gothic elements and psychological depth, making them a must-read for fans of classic mystery and suspense literature. The Collected Works of Marie Belloc Lowndes showcases the talent and creativity of a writer whose storytelling continues to captivate readers across generations. With its unique blend of mystery, psychology, and suspense, this collection is sure to leave a lasting impression on all who delve into its pages.

The Lodger
The Lodger

Author: Marie Belloc Lowndes

Publisher: Standard Ebooks

Published: 2022-04-30T17:06:09Z

Total Pages: 280

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The Lodger is the first known novelization of the Jack the Ripper story. It follows the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, a maid and butler. An eccentric lodger, Mr. Sleuth, arrives at their lodging-house just as a wave of horrific murders begins to sweep London. The Buntings become engrossed in the newspaper sensationalism as well the detailed accounts of their young friend, a Scotland Yard detective. Lowndes first wrote The Lodger as a short story published in McClure’s Magazine, then later published the novelization in the Daily Telegraph as a serial. It was very successful, with over a million copies sold within a few decades. Writers like Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein praised it, with one contemporary reviewer calling it “the best novel about murder written by any living author.” It has since been adapted to other media, notably as one of Alfred Hitchcock’s first movies. Today the novel is still considered the best fictional adaptation of the Jack the Ripper legend. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

The Collected Works of Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Collected Works of Marie Belloc Lowndes

Author: Marie Belloc Lowndes

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2018-06-10

Total Pages: 3057

ISBN-13: 8026894499

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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

Short Stories by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Short Stories by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Author: Elyssa Warkentin

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1527525767

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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 Lowndes’s 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 Lowndes’s 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 Collected Works
The Collected Works

Author: John R. Coryell

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-13

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13:

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John R. Coryell (1848–1924) was a prolific dime novel author. He wrote under many pseudonyms, one of them being Nicholas Carter, probably the best known. Nick Carter is a fictional character, invented by John R. Coryell and Ormond G. Smith, who began as a thriller novel private detective and has appeared in a variety of formats over more than a century. His father, Sin Carter, was also a detective and he taught young Nick some investigation techniques from early ages. After his father's death during one case, Nick takes over the investigation and continues to work as a detective. A master of disguise, Nick Carter spends most of the time under cover and keeps a low profile, based in an apartment on Madison Avenue in New York. This edition includes: The Crime of the French Café Nick Carter's Ghost Story The Mystery of St. Agnes' Hospital The Solution of a Remarkable Case With Links of Steel (The Peril of the Unknown) A Woman at Bay (A Fiend in Skirts) The Great Spy System (Nick Carter's Promise to the President)

Back from the Brink
Back from the Brink

Author: Paul McGrath

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1446409600

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Paul McGrath is Ireland's best loved sportsman and also its least understood. An iconic football presence during a professional career stretching over 14 years, he played for his country in the European Championship finals of 1988 and the World Cup finals of 1990 and 1994. But, behind the implied glamour of life in the employ of great English clubs like Manchester United and Aston Villa, McGrath wrestled with a range of destructive emotions that made his success in the game little short of miraculous. That story has until now never been told. It is a story that runs from a hard, hidden childhood spent in Dublin's orphanages all the way to the pain of two marriage break-ups and the struggle to cope with life after football. Quite apart from his all too public struggle with alcoholism, the story runs through the surreal highs and calamitous lows of a life lived habitually on the edge of chaos. It is not just a football story. It is an extraordinary human story that is certain to surprise with its candour. Here, for the first time, read about the father he never met; the mother whose love never died; the routine loneliness and ritual bullying endured by a black kid growing up behind closed doors in 1960s Dublin; the emotional breakdown suffered on leaving that institution; the recovery that - remarkably - brought him all the way to Old Trafford; the rollercoaster ride that followed. Here, the guilt, fear, self-loathing are all laid bare in a story fired with hope and determination for the future. It may well be the most candid sports book ever written.

The Only Girl in the World
The Only Girl in the World

Author: Maude Julien

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0316466603

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For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman's rise above an unimaginable childhood. Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor -- raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment. But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity. By turns horrifying and magical, The Only Girl in the World is a story that will grip you from the first page and leave you spellbound, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.

Melville Davisson Post: Collected Works
Melville Davisson Post: Collected Works

Author: Melville Davisson Post

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-05-17

Total Pages: 1051

ISBN-13:

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Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author, born in West Virginia. Post's best-known character is the mystery solving, justice dispensing West Virginian backwoodsman, Uncle Abner. Post also wrote number of stories about Randolph Mason, a brusque New York lawyer who is highly skilled at turning legal loopholes and technicalities to his clients' advantage. Post's other recurring characters include Sir Henry Marquis of Scotland Yard, the French policeman Monsieur Jonquelle and the Virginia lawyer Colonel Braxton._x000D_ This unique and meticulously edited collection of the greatest works by Melville Davisson Post includes: The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason_x000D_ The Corpus Delicti_x000D_ Two Plungers of Manhattan_x000D_ Woodford's Partner_x000D_ The Error of William Van Broom_x000D_ The Men of the Jimmy_x000D_ The Sheriff of Gullmore_x000D_ The Animus Furandi_x000D_ The Man of Last Resort (The Clients of Randolph Mason)_x000D_ The Governor's Machine_x000D_ Mrs. Van Barton_x000D_ Once in Jeopardy_x000D_ The Grazier_x000D_ The Rule Against Carper_x000D_ Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries_x000D_ The Doomdorf Mystery_x000D_ The Wrong Hand_x000D_ The Angel of the Lord_x000D_ An Act of God_x000D_ The Treasure Hunter_x000D_ The House of the Dead Man_x000D_ A Twilight Adventure_x000D_ The Age of Miracles_x000D_ The Tenth Commandment_x000D_ The Devil's Tools_x000D_ The Hidden Law_x000D_ The Riddle_x000D_ The Straw Man_x000D_ The Mystery of Chance_x000D_ The Concealed Path_x000D_ The Edge of the Shadow_x000D_ The Adopted Daughter_x000D_ Naboth's Vineyard_x000D_ The Sleuth of St. James Square_x000D_ The Thing on the Hearth_x000D_ The Reward_x000D_ The Lost Lady_x000D_ The Cambered Foot_x000D_ The Man in the Green Hat_x000D_ The Wrong Sign_x000D_ The Fortune Teller_x000D_ The Hole in the Mahogany Panel_x000D_ The End of the Road_x000D_ The Last Adventure_x000D_ American Horses_x000D_ The Spread Rails_x000D_ The Pumpkin Coach_x000D_ The Yellow Flower_x000D_ Satire of the Sea_x000D_ The House by the Loch_x000D_ Novels_x000D_ Dwellers in the Hills_x000D_ The Gilded Chair_x000D_ The Mountain School-Teacher_x000D_

Waiting for a Star to Fall
Waiting for a Star to Fall

Author: Kerry Clare

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0385695489

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"A love story at its core, though one without an ending written in the stars. . . . Timely and insightful." --Karma Brown, #1 bestselling author of Recipe for a Perfect Wife For fans of Joanne Ramos, Josie Silver, and Emily Giffin, a gripping and powerful story that asks: Just how much are you willing to forgive in the name of love? Brooke has long been caught in the orbit of Derek, a rising political superstar. First he was her boss, then they were friends and she became his confidant, the one person he shared everything with. And even though she had feelings for him--it was hard to resist; he's charming and handsome, respected and beloved--she never dreamed he'd feel the same way. Derek is so much older and could have anyone he wanted. But it turns out that who Derek wants is Brooke, and suddenly none of the reasons they shouldn't be together matter. They fall in love. And even though Brooke has to keep the relationship a secret--stealing weekends away with him, late nights with takeout after long days at work, and business trips that are always a romantic whirlwind--being close to him and her dreams of their future make everything worth it. Then it all falls apart, and Brooke is left holding the pieces of the life they'd shared. Derek becomes embroiled in a scandal--the kind Brooke never could have imagined he'd be involved in--and she is forced to re-examine their relationship and make sense of the man she loves. Poignant, heart-stopping, and resonant, Waiting for a Star to Fall is a story about love, the things we choose to believe, and how sometimes the path to happily ever after has to start with ourselves.

Invisible Ink
Invisible Ink

Author: Christopher Fowler

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9781907222153

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There are a great many authors we grew up with whose books became touchstones in our lives, who have simply disappeared. What happened to them? Adopting false identities, switching genders, losing fortunes, descending into alcoholism, discovering new careers, the stories of the missing authors are often more surprising than any of the fictions they wrote. But their books live on in our homes and our memories. They're passed to our children, to our friends, to secondhand shops. And sometimes they surprise everyone by revealing their secrets.