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The Lodger

The Lodger

by Marie Belloc Lowndes

1935Classic LiteratureFictionSerial murdersFiction, mystery & detective, collections & anthologiesFiction, general
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<p><i>The Lodger</i> is the first known novelization of the Jack the Ripper story. It follows the lives of <abbr>Mr.</abbr> and <abbr>Mrs.</abbr> Bunting, a maid and butler. An eccentric lodger, <abbr>Mr.</abbr> 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.</p> <p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marie-belloc-lowndes">Lowndes</a> first wrote <i>The Lodger</i> as a short story published in <i>McClure’s Magazine</i>, then later published the novelization in the <i>Daily Telegraph</i> as a serial. It was very successful, with over a million copies sold within a few decades. Writers like <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ernest-hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a> and <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/gertrude-stein">Gertrude Stein</a> 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.</p>

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Classic LiteratureFictionSerial murdersFiction, mystery & detective, collections & anthologiesFiction, generalFiction, mystery & detective, general
First published 1935

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Setting

Whitechapel (London, England)EnglandLondon19th century

About the author

Marie Belloc Lowndes

5 August 1868 – 14 November 1947

Marie Adelaide Belloc was the daughter of Louis Marie Belloc (1830-1872) and Elizabeth Rayner Parkes (1829-1925), born in George Street, Marylebone, London. Marie's mother, better known as '*Bessie*', founded the Woman's Suffrage Committee in England in 1866 with her best friend Barbara Bodichon. 'Bessie' Parkes was the granddaughter of Elizabeth Ryland (c.1769-1824) and Joseph Priestley, Jr. (1768-1833). Those maternal grandparents were respectively the children of Samuel Ryland (1745-1817), industrialist of Birmingham, England, and Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), the Unitarian minister who discovered oxygen. 'Bessie' soon left her friend Barbara Bodichon to continue 'the cause' so sh…

Author

Marie Belloc Lowndes

First published

1935

Pages

286

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

163

Language

English

Publisher

Independently Published

ISBN

9798888975060

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