The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Buntings are an elderly London couple who have fallen on hard times. They take in a lodger with the strange name of Mr. Sleuth, who pays handsomely for their shabby rooms. He seems to be a perfect gentleman but none the less they begin to suspect that he may be the Jack-the-Ripper-like serial killer known in the press as 'The Avenger'. As the number of murders in the city begins to mount, and Mr. Bunting's teenage daughter from an earlier marriage comes to stay, the couple must decide what to do about the man in their upstairs rooms. An early example of a psychological suspense story and a brilliant evocation of the fog-bound and gaslit streets of late Victorian London, The Lodger is still a wonderfully compelling thriller.
The older sister of the writer Hilaire Belloc, Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) was herself famous as a novelist during her lifetime. She published dozens of works of fiction, many of them featuring crime and murder. Her best-known work, The Lodger, supposedly inspired by a story heard about Jack the Ripper, first appeared in book form in 1913 and has been made into a film five times, once by Alfred Hitchcock.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857300096 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857300091 |
| Title | The Lodger |
| Author | Marie Belloc Lowndes |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oldcastle Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2016-02-11 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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