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The Loudwater Mystery
1920
First Published
3.75
Average Rating
188
Number of Pages
Lord Loudwater was in a better mood when he arrived for lunch than when he left the breakfast table. Lady Loudwater ate her meal with a serious demeanor and a slight pout on her face. Melchisidec approached Lord Loudwater, lay his paws on his pants, and inserted some claws into his leg after being very stimulated by the aroma of the grilled sole. Olivia Loudwater possessed the same girl in the picture's soft, dark, dreamy eyes, straight, delicate nose, attractive lips, and faint, precisely curling eyebrows. The enigmatic, alluring, lingering smile that probably best characterizes Luini's ladies was almost always there when Lord Loudwater wasn't around. Olivia had dark brown hair with gold flecks, which only made her allure more potent. Mr. Manley got a sudden feeling that Helena liked him considerably more than he had anticipated or expected when she showed up at Mr. Flexen's office. He racked his thoughts while he got ready to figure out why Lady Loudwater and Colonel Grey had lied. Hutchings was an impossibility. If they hadn't encouraged or hired Hutchings to carry out the murder, there would be no motive to protect him. If they were protecting a third person, it had to be the enigmatic, unidentified woman who had arrived in such hasty secrecy and then vanished.
Avg Rating
3.75
Number of Ratings
220
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author

Edgar Jepson
Author · 6 books

Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863 - 1938) was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. He used a pseudonym R. Edison Page for some of his many short stories, collaborating at times with John Gawsworth, Hugh Clevely and possibly Arthur Machen, long-term friends. He was editor for a short period of Vanity Fair magazine, where he employed Richard Middleton, and did much to preserve the latter's memory. He was also a translator, notably of the Arsène Lupin stories of Maurice Leblanc. He was a member of the Square Club (from 1908) of established Edwardian authors, and also one of the more senior of the New Bohemians drinking club. As a literary dynasty: his son Selwyn Jepson was known as a crime writer; his daughter Margaret (married name Birkinshaw) published novels as Margaret Jepson (including Via Panama) and as Pearl Bellairs; and Margaret's daughter Franklin is the writer Fay Weldon. The Jepson domestic arrangements are commented on second-hand in Weldon's autobiographical writing. Jepson was friends with the English mystery writer Hugh Clevely and even shared the same pseudonym "Tod Claymore." They co-wrote the novel "The Man With the Amber Eyes."

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