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Marie Adelaide Lowndes

British novelist
Also known as: Marie Adelaide Belloc, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
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Marie Adelaide Lowndes (born 1868, France—died November 14, 1947, Eversley Cross, Hampshire, England) was an English novelist and playwright best known for murder mysteries that were often based on actual murder cases. The sister of the poet and essayist Hilaire Belloc, she received little formal education, but, because of the prominence of her family in intellectual circles, she was acquainted with the leading literary figures of the day. Lowndes published her first story at age...

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