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Миссис Бантинг вместе с мужем открывает доходный дом, и поначалу дела идут из рук вон плохо. Но через какое-то время у Бантингов появляется новый арендатор: мистер Слут, вежливый и воспитанный молодой человек, готовый щедро платить за комнаты. Правда, у него есть свои странности: он до фанатизма религиозен, постоянно куда-то исчезает по ночам, а потом проводит некие таинственные эксперименты.

Меж тем по всему Лондону разносятся слухи о серийном убийце. Жестокий маньяк убивает молодых женщин и оставляет на телах жертв крошечные клочки бумаги с надписью «Мститель». Полицейские патрулируют улицы днем и ночью, но никак не могут выйти на его след.

Постепенно миссис Бантинг начинает подозревать, что их жилец может быть не тем, за кого себя выдает…

Миссис Бантинг вместе с мужем открывает доходный дом, и поначалу дела идут из рук вон плохо. Но через какое-то время у Бантингов появляется новый арендатор: мистер Слут, вежливый и воспитанный молодой человек, готовый щедро платить за комнаты. Правда, у него есть свои странности: он до фанатизма религиозен, постоянно куда-то исчезает по ночам, а потом проводит некие таинственные эксперименты. Меж тем по всему Лондону разносятся слухи о серийном убийце. Жестокий маньяк убивает молодых женщин и оставляет на телах жертв крошечные клочки бумаги с надписью "Мститель". Полицейские патрулируют улицы днем и ночью, но никак не могут выйти на его…

The Lodger is the first known novelization of the Jack the Ripper story. It follows the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, a maid and butler. An eccentric lodger, Mr. Sleuth, arrives at their lodging-house just as a wave of horrific murders begins to sweep London. The Buntings become engrossed in the newspaper sensationalism as well the detailed accounts of their young friend, a Scotland Yard detective. Lowndes first wrote The Lodger as a short story published in McClure's Magazine, then later published the novelization in the Daily Telegraph as a serial. It was very successful, with over a million copies sold within a few decades. Writers like Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein praised it, with one contemporary reviewer calling it "the best novel about murder written by any living author." It has since been adapted to other media, notably as one of Alfred Hitchcock's first movies. Today the novel is still considered the best fictional adaptation of the Jack the Ripper legend.

The Lodger, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors' original publications, the text is readable and clear.

English novelist Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes wrote a book titled The Lodger. The short tale was initially released in the January 1911 issue of McClure's Magazine. The story is told from Ellen Bunting and Mr. Bunting's perspectives as they work together to run a hotel. On their first effort, they experience horrible luck since an epidemic breaks out close to where they started lodging. He only departs after dark, and his experiments involve setting his clothing on fire, which makes her suspicious. She allows him to stay despite her growing fear since they require the cash. After working as a waiter at a party and earning some extra cash, Mr. Bunting asks his daughter Daisy to visit them. He encounters Mr. Sleuth that evening as he travels home, as he is heading to the hotel. The butler notices that it was covered in blood and is suspicious. The next morning, two more bodies are found close by. Mr. and Mrs. Bunting leave the house at the same moment on Daisy's birthday. When they get to their destination, the girl informs them about her chat with the lodger, in which he requested that he may accompany Daisy and Ellen to Madame Tussauds. Mr. Sleuth threatens her and leaves because he thinks she betrayed him. His body was found five days later.

The classic and chilling Jack the Ripper story

The book tells the story of Mr and Mrs. Bunting, owners of a failing lodging in London, who see in Mr. Sleuth, their only guest in a long time, their chance to salvage their business. As new murders happen in the surrounding neighbourhoods, the couple slowly begin to suspect their lodger might be the one responsible for them.

The story is based on the Whitechapel murders of 1888, committed by Jack the Ripper. The Lodger is the first known novelization based on the story. It has been considered an example of how to write a psychological suspense due to its focus on the effects the serial killer has on the main cast of characters, instead of on the murders themselves. The novel was adapted multiple times to the cinema and radio, including Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog.

"The Lodger" is widely regarded as the first and the best fictional adaptation of the Jack the Ripper story, and has been filmed multiple times, including in an early work by Alfred Hitchcock.

As all London is gripped by the horrific series of murders committed on its fog-bound streets by the self-styled "Avenger", respectable retired servants Robert Bunting and his wife Ellen are on the brink of personal disaster, in the ruin of their business. But then - miraculously as it seems - they are saved when the enigmatic Mr. Sleuth turns up at the door of their lodging house looking for rooms...but Ellen soon begins to suspect that Mr. Sleuth may be the very man who holds the capital in terror.

The Lodger (1913) is a novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes. Inspired by the infamous murders committed by Jack the Ripper and Dr. Neill Cream--also known as the Lambeth Poisoner--The Lodger is a thriller that employs aspects of the popular penny dreadful novel while maintaining its literary status as a bone-chilling and highly original tale. "The room, especially when it be known that it was part of a house standing in a grimy, if not exactly sordid, London thoroughfare, was exceptionally clean and well-cared-for. A casual stranger, more particularly one of a Superior class to their own, on suddenly opening the door of that sitting-room; would have thought that Mr. and Mrs. Bunting presented a very pleasant cosy picture of comfortable married life." Behind their polished exterior, the Buntings hide a common struggle. After countless failures, their business is threatened with total failure, forcing them to go cold and hungry in order to keep up appearances. As their savings plummet, a strange man named Mr. Sleuth arrives offering to pay for the next month in advance. The Buntings are in no position to turn him down. At the same time, a series of brutal murders shocks the city of London, raising their suspicions and fears to a fever pitch. The Lodger is a story of desperation and terror inspired by some of the twentieth century's most notorious serial killers. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Marie Belloc Lowndes' The Lodger is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.

The Lodger is a 1913 novel by English author Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, based on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. It is a novel-length version of Lowndes' short story "The Lodger", first published in McClure's Magazine in 1911.

Somewhere in London a madman was at large. And then one night there came a knock at the door of a quiet lodging house in the Marylebone Road. . . . This novel, based on the Jack the Ripper murders.

A serial killer calling himself "The Avenger" is prowling the streets of London. But Mr. and Mrs. Bunting has things of a more everyday nature to worry about. Facing the prospect of hard times, they are happy when a gentleman rents the upstairs rooms in their home. Soon, however, they find reasons to believe that this stranger, with his nightly walks and religious rants, is in fact The Avenger, whose preys are prostitutes.

This crime novel from 1913, a classic of the first water, is a retelling of the killing spree conducted by Jack the Ripper. It was the foundation for Alfred Hitchcock's first masterpiece, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), and have been adapted several other times for movies, theater, TV and radio.

The English-French author Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) became world-famous with her many elegant novels and stories in the genre of psychological thrillers, an early "queen of crime." She was inspired to write The Lodger by a supposedly real story about a couple, owners of a lodging house, who believed that one of their guests was Jack the Ripper. It had previously been told by the psychiatrist and amateur detective Dr. L. Forbes Winslow (1844-1913) in an article in New York Herald Tribune 1889, and also by the painter Walter Sickert (1860-1942). Sickert was told by his landlord and landlady, an elderly couple, that his rooms in Camden had been rented before him by someone they thought was Jack the Ripper. However, the stories by Winslow and Sickert are not connected, and it is possible that they originated from an urban myth.

"The Chink in the Armour" by Marie Belloc Lowndes is an early 20th century novel that was later turned into a silent film. Intrigue, mystery, and adventure are key parts to this story that has gripped readers for the past century. Though almost lost to time, literary preservation efforts have allowed its conservation for future readers.

According to legend, in 1910, Marie Belloc Lowndes attended a London dinner party where a guest told her that his mother’s butler and cook claimed they had once rented rooms to Jack the Ripper, the notorious mass murderer. The idea for The Lodger was born.

Mr. and Mrs. Bunting have sunk their savings into their house with plans to let rooms. But no lodgers have materialized, and they are on the verge of penury when one foggy night, a knock on the door brings Mr. Sleuth, an unassuming gentleman whose needs are perfectly suited to the suite of rooms the Buntings have to let. They can’t believe their good fortune.

Gradually, relief turns into suspicion, then dread, as Mrs. Bunting notices their savior’s strange habits are not mere eccentricities. When his late-night forays seem to coincide with the lurid headlines her husband reads to her about the grisly murders all over London, she slowly realizes she may be harboring a monster, and if he’s discovered, it will mean ruin for the Buntings.

This is the original 1911 short story. Lowndes expanded it to a novel two years later, and the tale has spawned a radio play, five films, and an opera. Jack the Ripper’s identity was never discovered, but The Lodger offers a tantalizing possibility that has entertained and intrigued audiences for more than a century.

The Heart of Penelope is the absorbing story of a young girl Penelope who falls in love with a man but doesn't marry him. Penelope goes through a series of life-altering events after that. But fate brings them together again, and they share an intimate relationship. When everybody starts foreseeing that she will marry him at last, another character enters the story. Whether Penelope will marry her old lover or not unfolds later in the story.The stories of diverse characters in this book are woven skillfully into a novel of unique power and interest. The characters are drawn deftly and seem to be inspired by real life. It presents a subtle and strong analysis of character. Throughout the story, the reader cannot imagine how it will end.

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Inspired by the Ripper murders of 25 years before, Belloc Lowndes wrote this story in 1913, a gripping claustrophobic tale describing the impact on an impecunious ageing couple, the Buntings, when an eccentric stranger comes to stay as lodger.

Mr Sleuth is a good guest, pays handsomely and in advance, needs very little looking after and seems to be a harmless gentleman. But when the murderous exploits of a serial killer known only as 'The Avenger' start occurring closer to home, Mrs Bunting begins to worry about her guest, his curious experiments and nocturnal habits.

The tension is held throughout and the real identity of the culprit is not fully exposed until the close of an excellent psychological thriller packed with horror and suspense.

Somewhere in London a madman was at large. And then one night there came a knock at the door of a quiet lodging house in the Marylebone Road. . . . This novel, based on the Jack the Ripper murders, was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock. Marie Belloc Lowndes (5 August 1868 – 14 November 1947), was a prolific English novelist. Active from 1898 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incidents with psychological interest. Three of her works were adapted for the screen: The Lodger (1913 novel; numerous film adaptations), Letty Lynton (1931 novel; 1932 film adaptation), and The Story of Ivy (1927 novel; 1947 film adaptation). Additionally, The Lodger was adapted as a 1940 radio drama and 1960 opera.