Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Belloc was born in London and raised in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France. In 1896, she married Frederick Sawrey A. Lowndes. She was the sister of author Hilaire Belloc. |
Titles and year of publication:
1) The Philosophy of the Marquise | 1899 |
2) The Heart of Penelope | 1904 |
3) The Uttermost Farthing | 1908 |
4) Love's Revenge | 1909 |
5) Studies in Wives (short stories) | 1909 |
6) When No Man Pursueth | 1910 |
7) The Chink in the Armour (Also published as: The House of Peril [1935]) | 1912 |
8) The End of Her Honeymoon | 1913 |
9) The Lodger | 1913 |
10) Studies in Love and Terror (short stories) | 1913 |
11) Good Old Anna | 1915 |
12) The Price of Admiralty | 1915 |
13) Love and Hatred | 1917 |
14) Out of the War? (Also published as: The Gentleman Anonymous [1934]) | 1918 |
15) From the Vasty Deep (US Title: From Out the Vasty Deep [1921]) | 1920 |
16) The Lonely House | 1920 |
17) Why They Married | 1923 |
18) The Terriford Mystery | 1924 |
19) Bread of Deceit (US Title: Afterwards [1925]) | 1925 |
20) Some Men and Women (short stories) | 1925 |
21) What Really Happened | 1926 |
22) The Story of Ivy | 1927 |
23) "Thou Shalt Not Kill" | 1927 |
24) Cressida: No Mystery | 1928 |
25) Duchess Laura: Certain Days of Her Life (US Title: The Duchess Intervenes [1933]) (short stories) | 1929 |
26) One of Those Ways | 1929 |
27) The Key (play) | 1930 |
28) With All John's Love (play) | 1930 |
29) Letty Lynton | 1931 |
30) Why Be Lonely? (play) (with F.S. Lowndes) | 1931 |
31) Jenny Newstead | 1932 |
32) Love Is a Flame | 1932 |
33) The Reason Why | 1932 |
34) Another Man’s Wife | 1934 |
35) The Chianti Flask | 1935 |
36) Who Rides on a Tiger | 1935 |
37) The House by the Sea (US Title: Vanderlyn's Adventure [1931]) | 1937 |
38) The Marriage-Broker (US Title: The Fortune of Bridget Malone [1937]) | 1937 |
39) The Empress Eugenie (play) | 1938 |
40) Motive (US Title: Why It Happened [1938]) | 1938 |
41) And Call It Accident | 1939 |
42) The Injured Lover (US Title: The Second Key [1936]) | 1939 |
43) Lizzie Borden: A Study in Conjecture | 1939 |
44) Reckless Angel | 1939 |
45) The Christine Diamond | 1940 |
46) Before the Storm | 1941 |
47) A Labour of Hercules (short story) | 1943 |
As 'Elizabeth Rayner' | |
1) The Net Is Cast | 1933 |