The Lodger (Detective Classics), by Marie Belloc Lowndes
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Detective Classics presents you The Lodger in a fantastic ebook edition. “When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens (Paris 6), three persons had already hanged themselves from the cross-bar of the window in that room on three successive Fridays.” The last of them was a police sergeant who had volunteered to sleep in the room to learn what happens that might explain the hangings, and somehow he met with the same fate. The medical student was aware of these incidents, but…"There was one detail about which he knew nothing because neither the police inspector nor any of the eyewitnesses had mentioned it to the press. It was only later, after what happened to the medical student, that anyone remembered that when the police removed Sergeant Charles-Maria Chaumié’s body from the window cross-bar a large black spider crawled from the dead man’s open mouth. A hotel porter flicked it away, exclaiming, ‘Ugh, another of those damned creatures.’ Thus begins this bizarre mystery of “The Spider”.
The Lodger (Detective Classics), by Marie Belloc Lowndes- Amazon Sales Rank: #739670 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-13
- Released on: 2015-10-13
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review Marie Belloc Lowndes's story explores the psychology of survival in the face of agonizing moral conflict. Lorna Raver's performance is a tour de force. Her dexterity shifting between accents is breathtaking. She creates the precise intensity, uncertainty, or sheer terror called for by each shocking situation. Raver's performance, combined with Lowndes's literate, suspenseful plot, makes this must listening. --AudioFileMore than a story of a serial murderer in foggy London of the early twentieth century, this is also a look at the social and familial mores of the time and of the strange relationship that forms between a mysterious lodger and his landlady....Raver's voice has superb diction and range. She speaks for all characters, except for the lodger, in a strong cockney accent, and she sets the mood from start to finish. --Kliatt
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"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-TimesThe Ripper murders still arouse excitement, and The Lodger has lost none of its hushed, chilling terror over the years."—The Drood Review of MysteryInspired 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.Dover (2014) republication of the edition originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1913.See every Dover book in print atwww.doverpublications.com
About the Author Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner 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 incident with psychological interest. Her most famous novel, The Lodger (1913), based on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, has been adapted for the screen five different times; the first movie version was Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), followed by Maurice Elvey's in 1932, John Brahm's in 1944, Man in the Attic in 1953, and David Ondaatje's in 2009. Another novel of hers, Letty Lynton (1931), was the basis for the 1932 motion picture of the same name starring Joan Crawford.
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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful. Eerie and Suspenseful By C. Parker While this book is old, first published in 1913, believe; it never reads that way. The style and tempo are very modern, although some of the vocabulary is not. This makes in read like a well-done modern-day period piece. The suspense continues until the very end, and is a must-read for any mystery, or even horror, lover.As for this edition, "purchased" the Public Domain Books version for free from the Kindle Store and downloaded it directly to my Kindle. It was well done without any spelling errors. It did have one extraneous period and a few missing commas, but expect that those errors were probably errors in the original text. The only issues that I had with this version were that a few times the start of a new paragraph was not indented. ll in all, an excellent job by the PDB volunteers.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful. psychological thriller By Paul Roberge A period piece shrouded in the Edwardian London fog but a good psychological thriller on the whole. Focuses on a husband and wife who run a boarding house (of the type that Holmes might have lived in) whose lives are changed by a mysterious lodger whom they increasingly suspect to be a serial murderer calling himself the Avenger. You get a good sense of the times and of the lives of the people involved: an ordinary couple who are suddenly forced to deal with the possibility of a homicidal madman in their house.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful. atmospheric By A Customer This is the suspenseful best-seller by Hillaire Belloc's sister that inspired Hitchcock's first talkie and the 1940s-era remake that won its star, Laird Cregar, an Oscar. The motivation of the murderess lodger's landlady may be hard for moderns to swallow. Her crisis comes from, on the one hand, guessing that her lodger is a serial killer, and, on the other, needing his rent money as well as harboring the working-class Victorian's deeply ingrained aversing to informing to the coppers -- this even though a young detective is a constant visitor and supportive friend. This conflict is never resolved. By accident only are the landlady and her husband saved from "The Avenger." Despite the protagonists' moral cowardice, the deus ex machina ending and considerable over-writing, this is a gripping, atmospheric page-turner, redolent with fine detail of every-day life in the London of the period. Their character warts don't prevent Mr. and Mrs. Bunting from being sympathetic. Indeed, those flaws help the book rise above its genre.
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