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DEATH OF MRS BELLOC LOWNDES LONDON, Nov. 15. The death is announced of Mrs Marie Belloc Lowndes, English mystery story writer and playwright, at the age of 80 years. Mrs Lowndes, the sister of the wellknown essayist, Hilaire Belloc, established her reputation as a mystery writer by the publication in 1913 of “The Lodger.” a fictionised representation of the Jack-the-Ripper murders. A great many of her later novels are similarly imaginative studies of actual murder cases. Her last work, published in 1942. was “I. *Too. Have Lived in Arcadia.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26621, 18 November 1947, Page 5
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91NOTED NOVELIST Otago Daily Times, Issue 26621, 18 November 1947, Page 5
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