The Lodger

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The Lodger is a 1913 novel by Marie Adelaide Lowndes. It is a fictionalized account of the Jack the Ripper murders. Lowndes was an English novelist and playwright known for her murder mysteries, often based on real cases. She was the sister of poet Hilaire Belloc. The Lodger was published after her psychological study of a murder-plot victim, The Chink in the Armour. Lowndes's numerous works span the first 40 years of the 20th century and include a series featuring detective Hercules Popeau.1

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Marie Adelaide Lowndes
The Lodger, published the following year, was a fictional treatment of the Jack the Ripper murders. Her numerous works, spanning the first 40 years of the 20th century, include a series featuring the detective Hercules Popeau and an autobiography, “I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia”…
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The Lodger, published the following year, was a fictional treatment of the Jack the Ripper murders. Her numerous works, spanning the first 40 years of the 20th century, include a series featuring the detective Hercules Popeau and an autobiography, “I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia”…
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Jack the Ripper
…notable was the horror novel The Lodger (1913) by Marie Adelaide Lowndes, which inspired numerous films, including Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927).
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…notable was the horror novel The Lodger (1913) by Marie Adelaide Lowndes, which inspired numerous films, including Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927).
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