Marie Belloc LowndesSister of author Hilaire Belloc, Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes (born Belloc; 5 August 1868-14 November 1947) was a prolific English novelist. The Chink in the Armour (1912; adapted 1922), The Lodger (1913; adapted many times), Letty Lynton 1931; adapted 1932), and The Story of Ivy (1912; adapted 1922) are four of her works that were adapted for the big screen (1927; adapted 1947). Belloc wed Frederick Sawrey A. Lowndes in 1896. (1868-1940). She was the only child of English feminist Bessie Parkes and French lawyer Louis Belloc. Hilaire Belloc, her younger brother, was a subject of her final writing. She wrote more than forty books, mostly mysteries, and at the same time as Agatha Christie established the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, she also invented the French detective Hercules Popeau. She related her mother's life narrative, which was partly based on ancient family letters and her own memories of her formative years in France. Ernest Hemingway appreciated her understanding of female psychology, which was particularly evident in the scenario where the average mind was unable to handle the effect of the remarkable. Belloc passed away on November 14, 1947, in the Eversley Cross, Hampshire, house of her eldest daughter, the Countess Iddesleigh (wife of the third Earl), and was buried at La Celle-Saint-Cloud, near Versailles, France, where she had spent her formative years. Read More Read Less