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       Marie Belloc Lowndes

      Marie Belloc Lowndes - British Murder Mysteries Collection: 17 Books in One Edition

      The Chink in the Armour, The Lodger, The End of Her Honeymoon, Love and Hatred, What Timmy Did…

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      ISBN 978-80-272-4328-0

      Table of Contents

       The Lodger

       The Story of Ivy

       The End of Her Honeymoon

       Love and Hatred

       What Timmy Did

       What Really Happened

       The Heart of Penelope

       The Chink in the Armour

       The Uttermost Farthing

      The Lodger

       Table of Contents

Marie Belloc Lowndes

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       “Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.”

      PSALM lxxxviii. 18

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      Robert Bunting and Ellen his wife sat before their dully burning, carefully-banked-up fire.

      The room, especially when it be known that it was part of a house standing in a grimy, if not exactly sordid, London thoroughfare, was exceptionally clean and well-cared-for. A casual stranger, more particularly one of a Superior class to their own, on suddenly opening the door of that sitting-room; would have thought that Mr. and Mrs. Bunting presented a very pleasant cosy picture of comfortable married life. Bunting, who was leaning back in a deep leather arm-chair, was clean-shaven and dapper, still in appearance what he had been for many years of his life—a self-respecting man-servant.

      On his wife, now sitting up in an uncomfortable straight-backed chair, the marks of past servitude were less apparent; but they were there all the same—in her neat black stuff dress, and in her scrupulously clean, plain collar and cuffs. Mrs. Bunting, as a single woman, had been what is known as a useful maid.

      But peculiarly true of average English life is the time-worn English proverb as to appearances being deceitful. Mr. and Mrs. Bunting were sitting in a very nice room and in their time—how long ago it now seemed!—both husband and wife had been proud of their carefully chosen belongings. Everything in the room was strong and substantial, and each article of furniture had been bought at a well-conducted auction held in a private house.

      Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the


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