DRAGNET: Marie Belloc Lowndes

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A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway, 1964: 'Shakespeare and Company' NON-FICTION

''If you don't want to read what is bad, [said Gertrude Stein] and want to read something that will hold your interest and is marvelous in its own way, you should read Marie Belloc Lowndes.'' I had never heard of her, and Miss Stein loaned me The Lodger, that marvelous story of Jack the Ripper and another book about murder at a place outside Paris that could only be Enghien les Bains. They were both splendid after-work books, the people credible and the action and the terror never false. They were perfect for reading after you had worked and I read all the Mrs. Belloc Lowndes that there was. But there was only so much and none as good as the first two and I never found anything as good for that empty time of day or night until the first fine Simenon books came out.

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