The Lodger is a psychological suspense novel by the English author Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes. It was written around 1913, and loosely based on the theme of ‘Jack the Ripper’. In a costly city London, Ellen Bunting and Robert Bunting having tough time managing their needs, they are financially limited. Once they were in service but have given up that long. To tide over their needs, they now have allowed some rooms of their house for lodgers. But, Ellen is quite peculiar with her preferences and choices. Soon, they get Mr. Sleuth as a lodger – he is a silent gentleman. Though nothing is bad about him, but he sounds clumsy. He has paid the rent in advance. Where did he come from is arcane. He wakes up anytime, reads quote from Bibles especially that goes against women. He says that he is a man of science, so on the gas stove he boils some or other thing anytime at night. Parallel to this story, newspapers are full of horrid murders of women. A serial killer kills drunkard w...
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