{"title": "The story of Ivy", "key": "/works/OL1172093W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2576251A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Detective and mystery stories", "Fiction", "Mystery"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "<p>Published in the United Kingdom in 1927, <i>The Story of Ivy</i> is a melodramatic murder mystery centered on a young woman, Ivy Lexton, who is caught up in the lifestyle of fashionable London during the Roaring Twenties. Having run through her late husband\u2019s fortune after only a few years, Ivy chances upon a millionaire whom she seems to be able to charm\u2014at least at first, before he refuses her further advances. Meanwhile, Ivy must also untangle herself from her devoted lover, a poor but handsome doctor.</p> <p>Considered by <i>The Spectator</i> to be one of <a href=\"https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marie-belloc-lowndes\">Marie Belloc Lowndes\u2019s</a> best stories, <i>The Story of Ivy</i> was also adapted to the screen as <i>Ivy</i> in 1947, starring Joan Fontaine in the lead role. Lowndes chronicles the significant changes in the culture of post-World War I Britain along with the sensationalism of a murder mystery.</p>"}, "covers": [14634086], "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T20:38:32.163990"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-11-12T18:06:57.895622"}}