''The Crime of Laura Sarelle'' is a 1940 novel by the British author

Marjorie Bowen Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long (née Campbell; 1 November 1885 – 23 December 1952), who used the pseudonyms Marjorie Bowen and Joseph Shearing, was a British author who wrote historical romances, supernatural horror stories, popular history and ...

, published under the pen name Joseph Shearing.Vinson p.92 The original title was simply ''Laura Sarelle''. A Gothic story, it takes place in

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

at the crumbling ancestral home of the Sarelles.

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* Vinson, James. ''Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers''. Macmillan, 1982. 1940 British novels Novels set in Ireland Novels by Marjorie Bowen Hutchinson (publisher) books {{1940s-novel-stub