Good Old Anna
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| Author | Marie Belloc Lowndes |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Mystery spy |
| Publisher | Hutchinson Doran (US) |
Publication date | 1915 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Good Old Anna is a 1915 mystery spy novel by the British author Marie Belloc Lowndes.[1] It was published in the United States the following year.[2] Lowndes was well-known for her 1913 novel The Lodger inspired by the Jack the Ripper murders. This work was written following the outbreak of the First World War. A popular novel it is set in a cathedral city in Southern England.[3]
Synopsis
German Anna has been a faithful servant of Mrs Otway for eighteen years. She unwittingly becomes a source of secret information to fellow Germans operating a spy ring. When she is confronted by the exposure of the plot, she hangs herself in remorse.[4]
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Bibliography
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- Potter, Jane. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War, 1914-1918. Clarendon Press, 2005.
- Vinson, James. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan, 1982.