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Alexandra Manners
Also known as: Anne Lamb Rundle, Anne Rundle
Anne Lamb was born on 1920 in Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England, UK, daughter of Annie Sanderson and George Manners Lamb, a soldier. She was educated at Army Schools, and attended Berwick High School for Girls. She worked as civil sevant on Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1942 to 1950. On 1th October 1949, she married Edwin Charles Rundle, and had one daughter, Anne, and two sons, James and Iain. Anne Rundle died on 1989. When she published her first novel in 1967, she won the Netta Muskett Award for new writers. She also won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novels Cat on a Broomstick (1970) and Flower of Silence (1971). In 1974, she was named Daughter of Mark Twain. Author of over 40 gothic and romance novels, she wrote as Anne Rundle, her maiden namem and under the pseudonyms of Joanne Marshall, Marianne Lamont, Alexandra Manners, Jeanne Sanders, and Georgianna Bell.
Most acclaimed
Follow a shadow
When Harriet Jones arrives, late at night, at the lonely Spanish villa left to her by her seemingly penniless godfather, she disturbs an intruder who was hiding in one of the bedrooms. Her godfather's friends and acquaintances all come under suspicion when she reads a letter he has left for safe keeping with a Spanish lawyer, indicating that either in the house, or on the land around it, there is some object of value. She is attracted to both a neighbouring landowner, Don Luis Montalba, and Cay Martin, a geologist, with whom she spends Easter in Seville. Seville is beautiful and filled with crowds who have come to participate in the famous Feria and the sinister Procession of the Penitents, a procession in which a man is killed—a man whose uncle once owned the villa which now belongs to Harriet.
The Stone Maiden
2001
The advertisement, complete with a box number, appeared in New York newspapers: "Will anyone having information about an infant abandoned in Manhattan twenty-eight years ago please communicate?"-- Katherine Derwith had placed the advertisement. In love with a very proper lawyer, she had refused to marry him until she solved the mystery of her parentage. Somehow she had to find the answers to questions that had haunted her for years; Who had left her, a young baby, in a shadowy corner of a Hudson River warehouse? Why had she been abandoned? Among those who answered her advertisement was Carl Dietrich, a television newsman. Although he disclaimed any knowledge of her origins, he offered to help her in her search. Katherine, however, had an uneasy feeling that he was not dealing straightforwardly with her. Her instinct was correct. He had his own reasons for not wanting her to learn who her parents were - reasons that involved a secret so sinister that it could mean death to anyone who stumbled on the truth. Here is an absorbing novel of conflicting loyalties and loves, which moves from Manhattan's fashionable East Side to its dangerous waterfront streets, from a bustling ski resort in the Italian Alps to a lonely valley presided over by a grim portent of evil, the rock figure of the Stone Maiden
Last act
1991
E PAGET HAD SIX MONTHS TO LIVE. That's what the doctors told her. Even so, when she was offered the leading role in the newly discovered Beethoven opera Regulus to be debuted in the tiny European principality of Lissenberg, Anne knew it was the chance of a lifetime. Her lifetime. But someone wanted the opera to fail. Strange accidents had already caused chaos. Then murder brought a new terror. Who was behind all this? Certainly not Michael, the charming, handsome, Oxford-educated man to whom Anne was so attracted - the man who kneew too many things, and who somehow managed to be very close to Anne when she faced her greatest peril.