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The Lodger, Marie Belloc Lowndes’ first novelization of the Jack the Ripper case, follows Mr and Mrs Bunting, a maid and butler, as an eccentric lodger arrives during a wave of murders in Whitechapel. The Buntings are drawn into the sensationalist press and the detailed reports of a Scotland Yard detective. Lowndes first published the story in McClure’s Magazine and later serialised the novel in the Daily Telegraph; it sold over a million copies in its first decades. The work has been praised by contemporary critics and writers, and was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock into one of his early films.
First publish date: 1935
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: Marie Belloc Lowndes
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