<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’s fortune after only a few years, Ivy chances upon a millionaire whom she seems to be able to charm—at 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’s</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>