Author: LOWNDES, MRS BELLOC [MARIE]
Title: The Lonely House
Description: London: Hutchinson & Co, 1920. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 287pp. Thriller with Hercules Popeau. Active from 1898 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incidents with psychological interest. She produced over forty novels in all - mainly mysteries, well-plotted and on occasion based on real-life crime, though she herself resented being classed as a crime writer. Her younger brother was Hilaire Belloc. Belloc's paternal grandfather was the French painter Jean-Hilaire Belloc, and her maternal great-great-grandfather was the theologian/philosopher Joseph Priestley.. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Rebound with new endpapers. Previous owner name stamp and inscription to fep & title page. Repairs to pages 159-160. Some page edge-tears and creasing .

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