Before the Storm is a 1941 mystery thriller novel by the British author Marie Belloc Lowndes.Vinson p.450The Virginia Quarterly Review, Volume 17. University of Virginia, 1941. p.160New York Times Saturday Book Review Supplement. New York Times Company, 1941. p.22Klein p.200 Known for her crime works, particularly The Lodger, this was one of her last novels and takes place in the months before the outbreak of the Second World War.
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