In 1888, a series of prostitutes were brutally murdered in the East End of London. These gruesome crimes filled the press and shook England with fear and intrigue. Marie Belloc Lowndes established her considerable reputation as a crime writer through her fictional account of these murders. Dealing with not only the psychology of "The Avenger"--her version of Jack the Ripper--but also with that of his landlady, Mrs. Bunting, who never gives away his secret, Lowndes creates an atmosphere of suspense, fear, and horror.  The only paperback edition of this classic available, The Lodger is a chilling page-turner from first to last.

The Lodger (Oxford Popular Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Lowndes, Marie Belloc

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

"One of the best suspense novels ever written." — The New York Times "This is a beautifully wrought novel of psychological suspense that should have a place on any mystery buff's shelf of classics." — Chicago Sun-Times "The Ripper murders still arouse excitement, and The Lodger has lost none of its hushed, chilling terror over the years." — The Drood Review of Mystery Inspired by the notorious Whitechapel murders, this 1913 thriller first appeared when Jack the Ripper's brutal crimes were well within living memory. Time has done nothing to diminish the popular fascination with the serial killings. This gripping tale of an elderly English couple's growing suspicions of their sinister boarder has served as the basis for several movies, including one of Alfred Hitchcock's first films.

The Lodger

Literary

Dover `

Noted Murder Mysteries (Belles-Lettres)

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Michael Walmer

"D'you mean you actually saw what you took to be a ghost?""I did see a ghost, ma'am; not a doubt of it! She walked up and down that room in there, wringing her hands all the time -- I'd heard the expression, ma'am, but I'd never seen anyone do it.""Did anything else happen?""At last she went over to the window, and there seemed no curtains there anymore, nothing but just an opening into the darkness. I saw her bend over -- I'd tell myself maybe that it was all a dream -- argue with myself, ma'am, for I'm a sensible woman. And then all at once I'd hear that rustle again! I'd try not to open my eyes, but somehow I felt I must see what was happening. So I'd look at last -- and there she'd be! Walking up and down, walking up and down, her face -- oh, ma'am, her face staringlike most 'orrible -- and wringing her hands. Then she'd go over to the window, lean out, and disappear, down into the black water!"In a calmer tone Pegler added: "The moat used to be much bigger and deeper than it is now, ma'am -- so they all say."

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Wildside Pr

Studies in Love and Terror

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

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The novel that inspired the Hitchcock classic.

Pjm Pub

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