The Lodger

The murders seemed to be the work of a woman-hating fanatic. There were a number of likely suspects, but all have alibis. The police were baffled and the citizens terrified, for somewhere in the gas-lit, fog-bound alleys of London a madman was at large. And then one night there came a knock at the door of a quiet lodging house on Marylebone Road...When The Lodger was first published in 1912, about twenty-five years after the gruesome 'Jack the Ripper' murders in London's Whitechapel section, praise was forthcoming from both sides of the Atlantic.